Re: Using socks4-clients with proxy at L.A. Free-Net (LAFN)

[Robert Cymbala <cymbaLa@lafn.org>]

Was able to use rftp as outlined in post sent by me earlier today.
Sorry about the unnecessary post, I didn't try enough remote hosts
before posting.

After finding an FTP site that works, I was able to verify that these
two changes to /etc/socks.conf did the trick, on a Compaq laptop
dialed to L.A. Free-Net using ppp/pon (quite simple, really):

  1. commented "direct 0.0.0.0  0.0.0.0" line (added "#").
  2. added "sockd" line with proxy server and interface (ppp0)

$ cat /etc/socks.conf''
# socks configuration 
#direct                  127.0.0.1       255.255.255.255
#direct                  10.7.10.255  	 255.255.255.0
#sockd                   0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0
#direct                  0.0.0.0         0.0.0.0
sockd @=206.117.18.6 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ppp0
$

-Rob Cymbala