Date: Mon, 16 Oct 1995 11:13:39 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> Cc: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socks5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951016110221.16148C-100000@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> In-Reply-To: <199510161330.IAA07826@jake.lodgenet.com>
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On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Eric L. Hernes wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Oct 1995, Michael Smith wrote:
> > > Jim Durham stands accused of saying:
> > > >
> > > > I have a successful port of the socks5 proxy server running. I didn't
> > > > see this in the port collection.
> > > >
>
> I've got a port of socks-4.2.2, that I haven't bothered to commit.
> Its got all the clients and server and lib (not shared though).
> If you've got a newer/better version of socks running, I'll just
> forget the whole thing (socks 4 that is).
>
I've only done the lib, server and ncftp175. I hope to get the rest
done soon, but I lack time 8-( .
> I've compiled socks versions of telnet, ftp, ncftp1, popclient, sup,
> and perl4.036 (possible others, but I use these frequently).
>
> What does socks5 add?
>
Mostly security stuff. The ability to lock out access from specific
addresses or blocks of addresses, subnets, etc. I'm not that familiar
with socks4, but this thing has the ability to proxy thru another proxy
also.
> > >
> > > I'd prefer to see the server and libs built by themselves, and the FreeBSD
> > > clients (at least telnet and ftp) built using the socks library, rather than
> > > using the older sources used in the socks clients.
>
> That'd be a pretty clean way, if we could come up with a -DSOCKS option
> for the rest of the system.
>
Hmmm.. OK. Seems like a very useful gadget if you have a LAN with several
DOS boxes attached.
Anyhow, my plan at the moment to is rip out the broken "autoconfig"
thing and just include the config.h file and the server and lib parts
of the tree.
To whom do I submit it ?
-Jim Durham
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