From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 25 19:52:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AA8C80F for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:52:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanegomi@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f171.google.com (mail-ob0-f171.google.com [209.85.214.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19CE18FC12 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:52:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ob0-f171.google.com with SMTP id dn14so7383402obc.2 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:52:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=LptAwLDWLkDlENcgGeU3ZR2V69BGaaDkhNO2Ucc2oCU=; b=xXIXq50L9hwZlC8pz7jyxGeChW7SiFXEpX3wb43CRGPg5PDAUib6XQ2NvHtsXvdW9Z xu1b2O4KTCdLoa5ZME3L2lqRcxAuVWUiI1bbJkoDw594AmRrbUOBF4bJcooIkpKjRvJk tZbQlzmmSHTE7r/9Z4zwUrQ7Ai0p5yfZFrHX1PTPJPWw3FS1/L8rKMeJsN44U2Ggak8B /nvE8O7Nh8c/Hp9axOEvmnupEEzema861rcYPTbUzwmkqyYOf1oiN8uLXso8Z6lwFiT6 5mFSA5SWXDp6GvXYb5Uo/HpYNSdYAsSlWnCWUHXdfJSjmDxQTSVrcW1rzrd7nuSQkLxb rrrg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.60.21.167 with SMTP id w7mr8636157oee.18.1356465126079; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:52:06 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.76.143.33 with HTTP; Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:52:06 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <50D94D04.90302@rawbw.com> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:52:06 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why chrome and firefox can't connect to almost any SOCKS4 proxy? From: Garrett Cooper To: Yuri Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 19:52:13 -0000 On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Yuri wrote: >> I tried many SOCKS4 proxies from >> http://sockslist.net/proxy/server-socks-hide-ip-address and mostly I am >> getting this error: >> Error 120 (net::ERR_SOCKS_CONNECTION_FAILED): Unknown error. >> Only one of them succeeded. >> SOCKS5 however works ok. >> >> On firefox I am getting similar symptoms, it can't connect to most SOCKS4 >> proxies and can connect to SOCKS5. >> >> What might be a problem? I was thinking that maybe some system or port >> library has some issue related to SOCKS4? Maybe libssl.so ? > > Try trussing/ktrace'ing the process to see if you can get a bit > more diagnostic information. If that doesn't yield anything helpful, > you might want to consider possibly going to the forums to ask this > question because this seems like something that is application > specific that wouldn't necessarily be well tied to -net@. > HTH, > -Garrett Also, check for firewalls/filtering being done by your ISP and hops in the middle, make sure there's support on the server end for SOCKS4, etc. -Garrett