Date: Sat, 18 May 1996 11:37:23 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: jonas@mcs.com (Lars Jonas Olsson) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jonas@mcs.net Subject: Re: What proxy server? Message-ID: <199605180207.LAA15814@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <m0uKQYA-0003ksC@mercury.mcs.com> from "Lars Jonas Olsson" at May 17, 96 09:30:38 am
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Lars Jonas Olsson stands accused of saying: > > I need a proxy server so that I can use netscape on Windows for WG > machines on a private network (10.0.0.*). This would run on the > internet server (FreeBSD 2.1R) that is connected via SLIP to internet. > > What is easy to install, safe, and reliable? SOCKS. The Socks-5 port should build under 2.1R, and because you don't need automatically-socksified clients, the lack of linker support for it won't be a problem. Netscape directly supports SOCKS. You'll probably also want to run a caching-only nameserver on the proxy server. > I'm looking for proxy server as that seems safer than having firewall > and direct internet access from the win machines. I doubt the win > machine net can be kept safe (passwords, shares, etc). You're 100% correct there 8) I've been using SOCKS in such an environment for well over a year now, with a 0% maintenance requirement. > Jonas -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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