[11314] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
SOCKS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chip Sparling)
Mon Mar 28 23:49:23 1994
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 94 22:18:15 EST
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: chip@ftp.com (Chip Sparling)
Reply-To: chip@ftp.com
Did someone ask what SOCKS was? It is a server process for your
firewall that gives indirect access to things like ftp and telnet to
closed off sites. There are also ping, finger, whois, mosaic, gopher
and irc clients.
See ftp.inoc.dl.nec.com:/pub/security for source code and more info.
To join the SOCKS mailing list, send email to
majordomo@syl.dl.nec.com
with
subscribe socks your@email.address
in the body.
Have fun,
chip
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Chip Sparling ftp Software, Inc.
Internet: chip@ftp.com 2 High Street
(508) 685-4000, fax: (508) 659-6104 North Andover, MA 01845
