Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 11:42:07 -0800 (PST) From: questions@geektank.org To: Jaime Kikpole <jkikpole@cairodurham.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting FreeBSD to talk to a proxy? Message-ID: <20020214114028.X34686-100000@benny.geektank.org> In-Reply-To: <20020214143547.S65517-100000@zeus>
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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jaime Kikpole wrote: > On Thu, 14 Feb 2002 questions@geektank.org wrote: > > I have a freebsd 4.5 server sitting behind a proxy currently, but I have > > no idea how to get the server to talk to the proxy to allow me to have > > external internet access. Is there a particular doc I can read? > > What kind of proxy? Most proxies that people are exposed to are > actually HTTP or SOCKS proxies. In these cases, you don't need to > configure FreeBSD to communicate with them so much as you need to > configure the application in question (e.g. Netscape Communicator, ftp, > ssh) to communicate with them. In that case, see the documentation for > the given application. Well i guess my problem is that I want to do thing like update the ports tree, ping, tracert, etc, but how do you configure these types of things to use the proxy? I know I can configure the applications like a webbrowser to use a proxy, but I'm unsure about these other scenarios. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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