To: "Nigel Sale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Copies to: [email protected] Subject: Re: Firewalls From: Daniel Pittman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Here, there and everywhere... Date sent: 15 Mar 2000 20:15:07 +1100
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nigel Sale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > >> > But my ultimate reason for doing this is that i want to be able to > >> > use apt-get from behind this firewall....so i need to socksify > >> > apt-get, has anybody done this ? > >> > >> Er. I had real problems with apt-get and dante working together. Then > >> I went to unstable and simply used my web proxy to do it all, which > >> is good. > > > > Can you elaborate on this last bit, how do you use apt-get from > > behind your firewall ? > > I couldn't, I fear. apt-get bombed out for me on some error or other[1] > about getpeername() failing. This was with HTTP archives only. > > The version of apt-get in Debian unstable lets you specify proxies to > use rather than always connecting directly, so I use it (now) by talking > through my web proxy. So, if i understand you correctly you have a web proxy server on the inside of your firewall which then talks to your socks proxy server ? Sounds handy, we don't have that, i'll let you know how i get on with dante and apt-get (it certainly seems to support passive ftp so who knows...) > > I never did get Dante to work with it though (although this was in the > pre-1.0 days of Dante, and maybe the 1.0 release). The socks4 stuff did > work with apt-get, but was more of a pain to configure. > > Daniel > > Footnotes: > [1] It's been, like, over six months since I tried this. :/ > > -- > Winning ideological and cultural battles, and creating new paradigms is the > name of the game. > -- Kono Matsu -- Nigel Sale Senior Systems Engineer Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd.
