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From: Bill Fenner <fenner@parc.xerox.com>
To: darrylo@sr.hp.com, fenner@parc.xerox.com
Subject: Re: bin/2482: 2.2-BETA install doesn't time out in FTP
Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Message-Id: <97Jan13.143220pst.177476@crevenia.parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 14:32:10 PST
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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