Lou Poppler wrote: >On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Josh Frick wrote: > >>Is there any reason that Socks and Squid couldn't or shouldn't be run on >>the same box? I'd appreciate anyone's advice. Thanks. >> > >Be very careful to configure both of these very restrictively. >The newest favorite trick of pro spammers is to find promiscuous >Socks proxies, Wingate proxies, and Squid or Cacheflow servers >which allow untraceable relaying of spam via your machine. >Untraceable to the actual spammer that is -- probably you will >have some explaining to do to your own ISP as to why so many >spam complaints are arriving which show your box as the source >of the spam. The default configurations of Socks and Squid seem >to allow any host to proxy through them. > > Thank you. Are there any Debian packages that have settings or scripts for settings you'd recommend? FYI, I was planning on putting Socks/Squid behind one or two packet filters. Not sure if this will make a difference, but I offer *no* services to the outside world. (intentionally, that is :-) )
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