Re: Firewalls
To: "Nigel Sale" <Nigel.Sale@martin-baker.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Firewalls
From: Daniel Pittman <daniel@danann.net>
Organization: Here, there and everywhere...
Date sent: 15 Mar 2000 20:15:07 +1100
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Nigel Sale <Nigel.Sale@martin-baker.co.uk> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> >> > But my ultimate reason for doing this is that i want to be able to
> >> > use apt-get from behind this firewall....so i need to socksify
> >> > apt-get, has anybody done this ?
> >>
> >> Er. I had real problems with apt-get and dante working together. Then
> >> I went to unstable and simply used my web proxy to do it all, which
> >> is good.
> >
> > Can you elaborate on this last bit, how do you use apt-get from
> > behind your firewall ?
>
> I couldn't, I fear. apt-get bombed out for me on some error or other[1]
> about getpeername() failing. This was with HTTP archives only.
>
> The version of apt-get in Debian unstable lets you specify proxies to
> use rather than always connecting directly, so I use it (now) by talking
> through my web proxy.
So, if i understand you correctly you have a web proxy server on
the inside of your firewall which then talks to your socks proxy
server ?
Sounds handy, we don't have that, i'll let you know how i get on
with dante and apt-get (it certainly seems to support passive ftp so
who knows...)
>
> I never did get Dante to work with it though (although this was in the
> pre-1.0 days of Dante, and maybe the 1.0 release). The socks4 stuff did
> work with apt-get, but was more of a pain to configure.
>
> Daniel
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] It's been, like, over six months since I tried this. :/
>
> --
> Winning ideological and cultural battles, and creating new paradigms is the
> name of the game.
> -- Kono Matsu
--
Nigel Sale
Senior Systems Engineer
Martin-Baker Aircraft Co. Ltd.
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