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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!en.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!salliemae!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!decwrl!amd!netcomsv!uu4news.netcom.com!broadway.Vera.Org!broadway.Vera.Org!not-for-mail From: thede@broadway.Vera.Org (Thede Loder) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Announce: SOCKS firewall server Date: 27 Apr 1996 19:22:18 -0400 Organization: Vera Institute of Justice Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4lua7a$4kl@broadway.Vera.Org> NNTP-Posting-Host: broadway.vera.org Keywords: SOCKS firewall unix server ANNOUNCEMENT Keywords: SOCKS security firewall traversal unix server Hello Internet and SOCKS buffs! I have written a small SOCKS implementation for UNIX. It is freeware, and hopefully will be of some use to the Internet community. Check out its webpages at http://waynesworld.ucsd.edu/~tlod/ssockd/ssockd.html Below is a quick summary of the Simple SOCKS Daemon: The Simple SOCKS Daemon (ssockd) is a SOCKS server for use on multihomed firewalls. It was written to be fast, easy to compile, and simple to configure. At this time, it supports Version4 of SOCKS, and does NOT support user authentication. It operates on the principle that the internal networks can be assumed secure, and that anyone inside it is allowed to make outbound connections, "destination anywhere". Unlike the reference implementation, there are no facilities to block outbound connections to particular hosts or sets of IP addresses. For this type of functionality, or for the version 5 protocol, I suggest getting the reference implementation, available at the NEC SOCKS site. However if you are one of the many sites that do not need user authentication or outbound filtering, then ssockd is for you. -Thede Loder -- tlod@leverage.com