On Sunday, May 29, 2005 4:58 PM [EST], Josh Paetzel wrote:

> The epic4 and epic5 ports on FreeBSD have an option to include in
> SOCKS5 support.  The licensing for SOCKS5 does not allow binary
> download.  One cannot automagically download the sources either.
> You have to fill out a web-based registration, download the tarball
> and then manually put it into the /usr/ports/distfiles on your
> FreeBSD machine.  There are other ports that get treated similar to
> this situation.  The problem is that I can no longer find a place to
> download the SOCKS5 sources from legitimately.
>
> My question is this:  Do I need to move heaven and earth to get
> SOCKS5 working again, or can I simply remove the option from the
> port?

Or an alternative would be to use another SOCKS5 library:

http://antinat.sourceforge.net/

Such as antinat.  Check FreshMeat, theres probably half a dozen
library implementations available.  I think Dante might have
header/library support too.

-- 
Brian Bruns
The Summit Open Source Development Group
http://www.sosdg.org  /  http://www.ahbl.org

 
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