Re: HELP: Running X/Mosaic from behind a firewall

Anthony Baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>
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To: Colin.Panisset@nms.otc.com.au (Colin Panisset)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: HELP: Running X/Mosaic from behind a firewall 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Sep 1993 11:10:12 +1000."
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Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1993 11:27:41 +1000
From: Anthony Baxter <anthony@aaii.oz.au>
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You write:
> 
>   My question is: has anyone successfully done this before? If so,
>   can you offer any hints? Tips? Pointers? Dereferences? 

The socks package was supposed to support a proxy XMosaic server (see
attached message, below). A quick look at the ftp location mentioned
below shows a 
<A HREF="file://ftp.inoc.dl.nec.com:pub/security/socks.cstc.4.0.tar.gz">newer version</a>, 
dated August 10th, maybe it will do what you want?

(ObPlug: If you're doing stuff with firewalls, join the
'firewalls@greatcircle.com' mailing list. Send mail containing
'subscribe firewalls' to majordomo@greatcircle.com)

> Date:    Fri, 09 Jul 1993 11:59:41 CDT
> To:      Firewalls@GreatCircle.COM, trstan@trew.dot.ca.gov
> cc:      ylee@syl.dl.nec.com
> From:    ylee@syl.dl.nec.com    (Ying-Da Lee)
> Subject: Wanted: testers for SOCKS (Was:  Firewall Software request)
> 
> Precedence: bulk
[ ... deleted ... ]
> The SOCKS package that I recent made available allows
> you to define access control on a per user basis, so
> it can deal with 1), 2), and 3). You should be able
> to compile and run the server daemon on your Sun.
> The ftp and telnet clients should be easy for Sun
> workstations and, with a bit more work, other Unix
> machines. I assume porting them for VM or VMS might
> be a lot of work.
> 
> The current version of SOCKS package (server with
> finger/telnet/ftp/xgopher clients) is available
> with anonymous ftp from ftp.inoc.dl.nec.com
> (143.101.112.3) in directory pub/security, the file
> name is socks.cstc.930629.tar.Z.
>  
> A newer version is coming. It will include an xmosaic
> client which allows access to WWW/Gopher/Hytelnet/ftp
> and other goodies, assuming that I can get permission
> from the NCSA folks. It will also have the network/host
> byte order mess cleaned up, which is the major hurdle
> for porting the current version to machines with different
> endian-isms. Since I have only Suns here (and no 386i's),
> I really can't see whether I caught them all. Would
> anyone on this list with machines of mixed endian-isms
> want to volunteer for testing?
>
>         Ying-Da Lee     (214)518-3490   (214)518-3552 (FAX)
>         Principal Member, Technical Staff
>         NEC Systems Laboratory, C&C Software Technology Center /
>         NEC USA, Corporate Network Administration Division
>         ylee@syl.dl.nec.com

Hope this helps...
Anthony
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