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Date:      Wed, 1 Nov 1995 15:32:23 -0600 (CST)
From:      Phil Gilley <pgilley@metronet.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   SOCKS and Netscape
Message-ID:  <Pine.HPP.3.91.951101152840.15524A-100000@fohnix.metronet.com>

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I'm using FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE and iijppp to connect to the Internet
through a local service provider who has assigned me a single permanent
IP address.  This works fine.  I'm also connected to another FreeBSD
machine via ethernet.  The ethernet network has been set up using
"private net" IP addresses as mentioned in /etc/hosts.  I set up SOCKS
version 4.2 on the first FreeBSD machine so the second one can talk to
the Internet.  The SOCKS clients rftp, rtelnet and rfinger work fine.
At one time, I even had Netscape working with SOCKS.  However, after
having to rebuild the SOCKS host due to a disk crash (and no recent
backups), Netscape has quit working.  As far as I can tell, Netscape
is never connecting to sockd on the SOCKS host even though I have the
SOCKS host option set.  I'm at a loss as to what's gone wrong.  Does
anyone have any ideas?

Phil Gilley
pgilley@metronet.com



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