FTP Searching Lore

~ FTP Searching~

Version 0.04
October 2005

Ye Olde FTP

Introduction	FTP Search Engines
FTP Clients	FTP Resources

Introduction

I don't personally think that FTP needs an introduction, if your not familiar with the FTP protocol you should be reading one of the ftp tutorials out there, just be aware that with FTP you can find and retrieve nearly any legal (and possibly illegal :-) file on the web.

FTP Search Engines

[Global] | [Meta] [Specialized]

[Scandinavian]

Global Search Engines

Amun

FTP-Search

Exact Match Standart
View only public (anonymous access)

FILES.LT

http://www.files.lt/?... yumm!

Search type Matching KeyWords or complete Filename

Object type Size from MB to Extension

-
Show inactive servers

AllTheWeb

Search type: Try exact hits first
Limit to domain: Limit to path:
Minimum size: Maximum size:
Max hits: Max matches: Max hits/match:
Hide: Packages Distfiles FreeBSD OpenBSD NetBSD Linux

FileMirrors

Not Just a FTP Search Engine, But Pretty Unique in its HTTP Mirroring as Well

Meta Search Engines

Metaseek

Chinese Regional Search Engines

Peking University

Files File Size: From to
File Date: Before / / (yy/mm/dd) After / / (yy/mm/dd)
Records: Search in site:

Dalian University of Technology

Latvian Regional Search Engines

Latvia FTP search

Polish Regional Search Engines

Archie

onet.pl

Search for:
Search type: File type:
Domain: Path:
Sort by: Hits per page:

PLIKoskop Accepts wildcards, exemples: *winzip winzip* *winzip* *w?nzip

Russian Regional Search Engines

Files.ru

wildcards: *,? exemple: winzip??.exe winzip*.zip

Rambler advanced FTP search

Example:far*.exe
Search
Search for: Search type:
To distinguish the strochnye/propisnye Only files (without the directories)
Exclude FreeBSD/Linux/etc.
Exclude directories: Find in directories:
Exclude domains: Find in domains:
Size/dimension of file, in bytes: from to
Sort by and then by
Catalogs at first To roll up the results of search on the names of folder/directory

http://reliz.ru/

Knet

Lomonosovsky.net

Slovakian Regional Search Engines

NoseyParker

Taiwanese Regional Search Engines

FtpLocate

Scandinavian

FTP search interface to the swedish sunet ftp-archive

Specialized Search Engines

OTH

OTH is an mp3 search engine mainly but other *warez* types of files can be seeked through it as well.

It's better to use this engine to find the names of your targets if your unsure of the *exact* name, as this engine is heavily spammed by banner clickers (they won't give you access to files till you vist X and click Y and get password for Z). Also of note is "the hide ? sites", its purpose is to remove ratio/banner sites from the results but is often circumvented.

Narly

"It's Narly time"

You can add your ftp sites to this one :-)

http://www.filesearching.com/

Quite useful one

Search for drivers! ( advanced search )

FTP Clients

Freeware Clients

Name	Platform	License	Comment
SmartFTP	Windows	Freeware for personal and educational use	One of the better freeware windows clients, interface might take a bit of getting used to :)
ncftp	Multiple Platform	Freeware (GPL)	Command line client, one of the longest standing *nix clients available.
lftp	GNU/Linux and UNIX Variants	Freeware (GPL)	Advanced commandline ftp client.

FTP Resources

[Our own Searching scrolls]
Some scrolls will give you more searching power than you actually can manage :-)

[Raw FTP Command List]
Quite often invaluable if your doing some ahem not so standard things :)