From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 23 06:41:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id GAA03289 for current-outgoing; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:41:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bacall.lodgenet.com (bacall.lodgenet.com [205.138.147.242]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id GAA03284 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 06:41:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from mail@localhost) by bacall.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id IAA17091; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:39:33 -0500 Received: from garbo.lodgenet.com(204.124.123.250) by bacall via smap (V1.3) id sma017089; Tue Apr 23 08:39:25 1996 Received: from jake.lodgenet.com (jake.lodgenet.com [204.124.120.30]) by garbo.lodgenet.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with ESMTP id IAA28364; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:43:35 -0500 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jake.lodgenet.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id IAA18797; Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:43:34 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199604231343.IAA18797@jake.lodgenet.com> X-Authentication-Warning: jake.lodgenet.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.2 7/18/95 To: Paul Traina cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socks support native in freebsd? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:46:40 PDT." <199604222246.PAA06258@precipice.shockwave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:43:33 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Paul Traina writes: >I know I'm the "let's not bloat things out" guy, but I want to get some >feedback on this idea. It seems like a big gain. > >I'd like to bring socks4 (and later socks5) into the FreeBSD source tree >directly. The reason for doing so is that minor modifications to our >utilities, such as telnet, ftp, et al need to be performed. I figure it >would be more useful to the user community if we just make these changes >/and/ ship our default binaries with socks support included. > >Everything will behave as normal, unless the user creates /etc/socks.conf >which will then enable socks functionality. > >Comments? At least everyone here at LodgeNet would appreciate it, ever since we replaced all those linux boxes with FreeBSD ones. I've been using socks4 for all my internet accesses here. I've got sup, perl, knews, arena, w3c, ... but it'd be great to not even have to recompile ;) > >Paul > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com