Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 08:43:33 -0500 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Paul Traina <pst@Shockwave.COM> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: socks support native in freebsd? Message-ID: <199604231343.IAA18797@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 22 Apr 1996 15:46:40 PDT." <199604222246.PAA06258@precipice.shockwave.com>
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Paul Traina writes: >I know I'm the "let's not bloat things out" guy, but I want to get some >feedback on this idea. It seems like a big gain. > >I'd like to bring socks4 (and later socks5) into the FreeBSD source tree >directly. The reason for doing so is that minor modifications to our >utilities, such as telnet, ftp, et al need to be performed. I figure it >would be more useful to the user community if we just make these changes >/and/ ship our default binaries with socks support included. > >Everything will behave as normal, unless the user creates /etc/socks.conf >which will then enable socks functionality. > >Comments? At least everyone here at LodgeNet would appreciate it, ever since we replaced all those linux boxes with FreeBSD ones. I've been using socks4 for all my internet accesses here. I've got sup, perl, knews, arena, w3c, ... but it'd be great to not even have to recompile ;) > >Paul > eric. -- erich@lodgenet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich erich@rrnet.com
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