From owner-cvs-ports Sun Aug 10 22:45:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA13500 for cvs-ports-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu (kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.192]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA13487; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:45:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (regulus43.wco.com [199.4.125.143]) by kongur.cs.ucdavis.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA08508; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) id FAA09781; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 05:44:43 GMT Message-ID: <19970810224442.48530@dragon.nuxi.com> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 22:44:42 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Paul Traina Cc: Satoshi Asami , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/security Makefile Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.COM References: <199708070815.BAA01044@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> <199708071827.LAA09022@precipice.shockwave.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.76 In-Reply-To: <199708071827.LAA09022@precipice.shockwave.com>; from Paul Traina on Thu, Aug 07, 1997 at 11:27:50AM -0700 X-Warning: Mutt Bites! X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Organization: The NUXI *BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I don't understand why we have a socks4 port at all. socks5 is upwards > and backwards compatible with 4, and supports a lot more functionality. Give me a working socks5 configuration file that works at HP and I'll be *more* than glad to remove it. HP uses a modified version of socks4, and I don't know of any of the Linux weenies there that gotten socks5 to work with the firewall. (I'll be the first to admit, I don't know much about socks). > However, socks is much more general than just security, and as such, that's Really? I've only ever heard it come up in firewall/security situations. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)