From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 15:32:51 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id PAA25002 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 15:32:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA24997 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 15:32:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailbox.mcs.com (Mailbox.mcs.com [192.160.127.87]) by kitten.mcs.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA04135 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 17:32:46 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mailbox.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Fri, 17 May 96 17:07 CDT Received: by mars.mcs.com (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.5) id ; Fri, 17 May 96 17:07 CDT Message-Id: Subject: Proxy servers To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 17:07:52 -0500 (CDT) From: "Lars Jonas Olsson" Cc: jonas@mcs.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The proxy servers I got mentioned/recommended were: squid http://www.nlanr.net/Squid harvest http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/ cern http://www.w3.org I was however to impatient and installed the Netscape 1.12 proxy server for BSDI 2.0 (actually BSDI 1.* binaries). This installed without any hitch on my FreeBSD 2.1R server. I used Mosaic on a remote machine to set the proxy server up. This was installed on a 486DX25 "server" with no packet forwarding and 80 MB IDE HD and 80MB SCSI HD (Seagate ST296, really old). The "server" has no X installed. The netscape 1.12 proxy server can be downloaded from http://www.netscape.com You need to register first and then use the user id and password to download. This gives you 60 days to test it out. (And look for a free alternative.) The proxy server costs $995 I think. I then tried to use this proxy from Mosaic 2.6 on FreeBSD with no sucess even though the README for Mosaic says that it has proxy support. I guess it is just some configuration/setup issue. Perhaps finding a netscape that runs under FreeBSD 2.1R can solve this problem. Then I installed Netscape Atlas preview on a WinFWG machine with microsoft tcp/ip stack. In the Options menu I selected Network Preferences and manual Proxy Configuration to type in the host name and port number for my proxy server. After this netscape works fine. I don't need any name server on the internal network either. Jonas