From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 2 15: 2:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.index.com.jo (mail0.index.com.jo [212.38.128.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B550A14E04 for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 15:02:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsodah@index.com.jo) Received: from index.com.jo ([212.38.128.140]) by mail0.index.com.jo (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with ESMTP id 211; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 23:58:56 +0200 Message-ID: <377D371C.60DC1ACE@index.com.jo> Date: Sat, 03 Jul 1999 01:03:08 +0300 From: Sodah X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon Doran , FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: socks5 References: <199907022039.OAA15281@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon Doran wrote: > > You don't. It's a proxy software. It really just depends on your setup, > > you are either going to need to setup a proxy or two or use ppp -alias (or > > natd) to allow access from the win95 machine. > > What? Unless he's done something odd, none of this is needed. Out of the > box, FreeBSD's telnet/ftp daemons will accept connections from Windows 95. i did nothing , i am just trying to run mIRC at my Win-box till now i keep getting "unable to resolve IRC server" -Pons > > > Lets not complicate things with proxies until we have evidence that a > proxy is needed. And a proxy isn't going to help a FreeBSD machine accept > a connection from Windows 95. It would, however, help the Windows machine > connect to another machine _on the other side_ of the FreeBSD machine. But > this doesn't appear to be what he is trying to do... > > Quoting the original question: > > > Why do i need socks5 on my BSD machine to accept Windows95 connections? > > Pons: what do you mean by "accept Windows 95 connections"? How are you > attempting to connect? (ftp/telnet/irc/something else). This makes a > great deal of difference. > > What were the circumstances around your being told that you need socks5? > Were you trying to do something, and someone offered you this advice? It > might have been good advice which you have confused with another problem. > > Jon Doran To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message