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diff --git a/net/socks4/DESCR b/net/socks4/DESCR new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..8faaf05fa3e --- /dev/null +++ b/net/socks4/DESCR @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +This is CSTC version 4.2 of SOCKS, a package that allows Unix hosts +behind a firewall to gain full access to the internet without requiring +direct IP reachability. It does require a SOCKS server program being +run on a hosts that can communicate directly to hosts behind the firewall +as well as hosts on the Internet at large. It is based on the original +SOCKS written by David Koblas <koblas@netcom.com>. + +The package includes full source for the SOCKS server and SOCKSified +client programs of finger, ftp, telnet, and whois. A few other SOCKSified +clients may be found on ftp.nec.com, in directory /pub/security/socks.cstc. +Increasingly, software developers are beginning to include SOCKS support +directly into their products, for example, Mosaic, Netscape, Trumpet +Winsock, TCP/Connect II (from InterCon for Macintosh; they also intend +to do so for their Windows version), OutsideVew for Windows (from Crystal +Point, currently in beta). |