From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 10:48:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA24506 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:48:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA24498 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 10:48:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA12495; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 12:47:54 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDADBD.21E40DE0@noc.mfn.org>; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:47:26 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDADBD.21E40DE0@noc.mfn.org> From: NOC-GFX To: NOC-GFX , "'Spidey'" Cc: "Pavel V. Antipov" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: About using ICQ Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 17:47:25 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry, but I have no experience at all with this app. The workaround we implemented here was for our windows users... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org ---------- From: Spidey Sent: Sunday, July 12, 1998 6:36 PM To: NOC-GFX Cc: Pavel V. Antipov; questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: About using ICQ 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