[11340] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: SOCKS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ying-Da Lee)
Tue Mar 29 22:41:50 1994
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 14:22:13 CST
From: ylee@syl.dl.nec.com (Ying-Da Lee)
To: com-priv@psi.com
Cc: ylee@syl.dl.nec.com
[Just to add a little more details to Chip's answers.]
>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.
And the access is transparent: Your users won't even know that
they are not directly (IP-)connected to the Internet. Most client
and server programs run on Unix hosts. There are now EXPERIMENTAL
telnet, ftp, and finger clients for Winsock. (Please note well
the big-lettered EXPERIMENTAL!) A more elaborate way for running
WinMosaic over CERN's httpd and SOCKS is also available. I also
understand that the next version of MacMosaic will contain SOCKS
support.
>See ftp.inoc.dl.nec.com:/pub/security for source code and more info.
It is probably easier to remmeber the host as ftp.nec.com. All
SOCKS related files are in directory /pub/security/socks.cstc.
Please retrieve and read FILES first, which contains brief
descriptions of files in that directory.
Ying-Da Lee (214)518-3490 (214)518-3552 (FAX)
Principal Member, Technical Staff
NEC Systems Laboratory, C&C Software Technology Center
ylee@syl.dl.nec.com
