From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 10:35:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA22878 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:35:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA [132.204.2.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA22870 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:35:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA) Received: from epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca (epsom.JSP.UMontreal.CA [132.204.45.25]) by harfang.CC.UMontreal.CA (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA03029; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:35:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from outpost.nada.org (derby.jsp.umontreal.ca [132.204.45.26]) by epsom.jsp.umontreal.ca via SMTP (951211.SGI.8.6.12.PATCH1502/JSP1789) id NAA10705; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:35:32 -0400 Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 13:36:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Spidey X-Sender: beaupran@outpost.nada.org To: NOC-GFX cc: "Pavel V. Antipov" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: About using ICQ In-Reply-To: <01BDADB3.189AA0A0@noc.mfn.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry to ask but, have you been to make ICQJava work? It's been 3 times I try and nothing will do... When I start it, it justs keeps connecting forever, and I can't add any contacts. For information, I'm connected via user ppp, and use a socket at /var/run/internet=. Thanks in advance! On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, NOC-GFX wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Jul 1998, Pavel V. Antipov wrote: > > > Server's operation system is FreeBSD 2.2.5. > > My local network has addresses specified in RFC1918. > > This network have connection with Internet (HTTP,FTP protocols) > > via proxy-server. > > > > 1. How can I provide using ICQ for network users ? > > ICQ runs on UDP. If you open up your UDP though, you leave your > network wide open. What we have done here is set up an ICQ proxy: > 1 lone machine which is allowed to receive ICQ (UDP) packets > unconditionally, and which then sends out appropriately screened > packets to a (very small) list of hosts which are specifically listed > as allowed to read them. This was a LOT of work: stripping the > proxy host down file by file took almost a month, and to tell you the > truth, I am still nervous about it. ICQ is a nightmare of security risks, > and should probably just be abandoned altogether. > > HTH, > J.A. Terranson > sysadmin@mfn.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > Spidey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message