On Tue, 24 Sep 2002 16:38:23 +0800 (PHT)
"Ian C. Sison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mused:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, -JhAzEr- wrote:
>
> > I'm having trouble accessing one site, my manager told me that it uses
> > winsock in windows.
>
> Winsock and socks are two different things. Winsock is windows
> implementation of tcp sockets, socks is a library which is used to provide
> seamless access to the public internet from an private intranet.
>
> > I saw the socks(tcp/udp) port numbers from
> > /etc/services. My problem is i can't figure out how to put it in my
> > /etc/inetd.conf, as there is no executable for socks in my binary
> > directories. Do i have to install something to be able to use socks?
>
> What application are you trying to run? If it truly requires socks, then
> you should have a look at 'dante' which is an open source implementation
> of the socks library.
Actually it's a website (a web ordering site). You must have a certificate to access
the site.
>
> But most likely your problem is due to the fact that there are problems
> with your masquerading rules.
;) I'm also looking into that, but i still can't figure it out (still have a pea
knowledge of iptables...sigh).
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