From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Apr 1 19:05:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA00141 for isp-outgoing; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from obiwan.aceonline.com.au (obiwan.aceonline.com.au [203.103.90.67]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA00134 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 1997 19:05:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (adrian@localhost) by obiwan.aceonline.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA13009; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:56:51 +0800 (WST) Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 10:56:51 +0800 (WST) From: Adrian Chadd To: "Daniel O'Callaghan" cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Daniel O'Callaghan wrote: > > Unfortunately I haven't tried it myself.. > > However you *COULD* try the linux http transparent proxy .. > > I have a firm belief in OS homogeneity. > What do you mean? > > grab a copy via anon ftp from wombat.omen.com.au in /pub/other.linux.stuff > > Might be useful to work out how it is done > Its really easy, and AFAIK it doesn't use any "linuxisms" that could be easily fixed. It basically grabs the requested HTTP request, munges it into the format a proxy would like, and forwards that onto the proxy, returning what the proxy returns. Again, I'll be doing it tomorrow at work. Cya. -- Adrian Chadd | UNIX, MS-DOS and Windows ... | (also known as the Good, the bad and the | ugly..)