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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
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Message-ID: <4lua7a$4kl@broadway.Vera.Org>
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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

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tlod@leverage.com