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Date:      Thu, 23 Dec 1999 17:26:19 +0100
From:      Udo Schweigert <ust@cert.siemens.de>
To:        Russell Frame <binxist@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOCKS wrapper
Message-ID:  <19991223172619.A54747@alaska.cert.siemens.de>
In-Reply-To: <19991223162250.11859.qmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com>; from binxist@yahoo.com on Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:22:50AM -0800
References:  <19991223162250.11859.qmail@web1004.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Thu, Dec 23, 1999 at 08:22:50 -0800, Russell Frame wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am looking for a utility that will "socksify" network applications
> that do not natively support SOCKS.  An example would be to run
> a standard telnet session through a SOCKS proxy to outside hosts.
> The only thing I found in ports was the Perl module and a quick
> web search didn't pull up anything either.
> 

Try "runsocks <command>".

This works if the application is linked dynamically, i.e. using shared 
libraries. 

For me it works with (at least): telnet, ftp, cvs, cvsup, fetch, ....

Regards
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