From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 17 18:56:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA09856 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 17 May 1996 18:56:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA09845 for ; Fri, 17 May 1996 18:55:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA15814; Sat, 18 May 1996 11:37:24 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605180207.LAA15814@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: What proxy server? To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:37:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jonas@mcs.net In-Reply-To: from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at May 17, 96 09:30:38 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Lars Jonas Olsson stands accused of saying: > > I need a proxy server so that I can use netscape on Windows for WG > machines on a private network (10.0.0.*). This would run on the > internet server (FreeBSD 2.1R) that is connected via SLIP to internet. > > What is easy to install, safe, and reliable? SOCKS. The Socks-5 port should build under 2.1R, and because you don't need automatically-socksified clients, the lack of linker support for it won't be a problem. Netscape directly supports SOCKS. You'll probably also want to run a caching-only nameserver on the proxy server. > I'm looking for proxy server as that seems safer than having firewall > and direct internet access from the win machines. I doubt the win > machine net can be kept safe (passwords, shares, etc). You're 100% correct there 8) I've been using SOCKS in such an environment for well over a year now, with a 0% maintenance requirement. > Jonas -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[