From owner-freebsd-security Wed Sep 16 18:49:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA10831 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:49:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (hillbilly.hayseed.net [204.62.130.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA10809; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:49:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from enkhyl@hayseed.net) Received: from hillbilly.hayseed.net (hillbilly.hayseed.net [204.62.130.2]) by hillbilly.hayseed.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA25544; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:49:04 -0700 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1998 18:49:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Enkhyl To: Chris Dillon cc: Allen Smith , isp@FreeBSD.ORG, security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Copyleft/BSD Copyright FTP Proxy Software In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Chris Dillon wrote: > On Wed, 16 Sep 1998, Allen Smith wrote: > > > Hi. Anybody know of any good Copyleft or BSD Copyright FTP Proxy > > Software? SOCKS version 4 is no longer being supported by its > > developers, so far as I can tell. > > > > Thanks, > > > > -Allen > > > > P.S. I'm wanting copyleft or BSD copyright because those tend to get > > security and other fixes a lot faster, plus I have in mind some > > improvements to the normal proxy server functions that I'd like to be > > able to distribute. > > > > -- > > Allen Smith easmith@beatrice.rutgers.edu > > > > The Squid Proxy and Object Cache handles both HTTP and FTP proxy and > caching. It exists in the FreeBSD ports collection and more info can be > found at http://squid.nlanr.net. It is in my experience a very good > solution, and apparently very popular. This is fine if you don't mind massive buffer overflow potential. Squid is not what I would call a security-minded piece of software. Just my $0.02 from perusing the source. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The Art and Science of Electronic Business cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message