From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 14 11:42:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from benny.geektank.org (ip154.courtyard-off-main.sea.interquest.net [66.135.148.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBB337B400 for ; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:42:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (tmchow@localhost) by benny.geektank.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g1EJg7734690; Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:42:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from questions@geektank.org) Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:42:07 -0800 (PST) From: questions@geektank.org X-X-Sender: tmchow@benny.geektank.org To: Jaime Kikpole Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD to talk to a proxy? In-Reply-To: <20020214143547.S65517-100000@zeus> Message-ID: <20020214114028.X34686-100000@benny.geektank.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 questions@geektank.org wrote: > > I have a freebsd 4.5 server sitting behind a proxy currently, but I have > > no idea how to get the server to talk to the proxy to allow me to have > > external internet access. Is there a particular doc I can read? > > What kind of proxy? Most proxies that people are exposed to are > actually HTTP or SOCKS proxies. In these cases, you don't need to > configure FreeBSD to communicate with them so much as you need to > configure the application in question (e.g. Netscape Communicator, ftp, > ssh) to communicate with them. In that case, see the documentation for > the given application. Well i guess my problem is that I want to do thing like update the ports tree, ping, tracert, etc, but how do you configure these types of things to use the proxy? I know I can configure the applications like a webbrowser to use a proxy, but I'm unsure about these other scenarios. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message