Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:32:10 PST From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com> To: darrylo@sr.hp.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/2482: 2.2-BETA install doesn't time out in FTP Message-ID: <97Jan13.143220pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
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Nope, we're not using SOCKS. The FTP proxy is a special FTP server that accepts usernames like "user@host", and after that point it looks like a normal FTP connection so you can use unmodified FTP clients with it. Since the FreeBSD install lets you set the username and the URL scheme lets you set the port, I can (usually) use this FTP proxy to install. The problem that you describe in the SOCKS server is the same problem that I'm observing in our proxy, though; the data on the data connection arrives over the Internet before the control message, and the proxy blocks trying to write the data to the client because the client is waiting for the message on the control connection. Bill
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