Re: firewall problems
Matt Ranney (mjr@syl.dl.nec.com)
Sun, 30 Oct 1994 21:35:11 -0600 (CST)
Chris A. Petro Writes...
)
) [Flame on]
) Well, I too am stuck behind a firewall. Some of the most pitiful creations
) ever to not grace the face of the Internet. Firewalls should be passive.
) They are not passive. They take an active role in making your life
) miserable. And they enjoy it, too. And I'm getting sick of modifying every
) appl on the machine to work with it, when it should be working with the apps.
) [Flame off]
When done right, they aren't THAT bad. Unless, of course, the person
who set it up is a Super Security Nazi, in which case flame mode may
have been warranted.
) Anyway, when the socks versatile FTP client starts up, it gives a message
) about version numbers and other useless information. I tried putting this
Get the new version of Socks from ftp.nec.com:
ftp://ftp.nec.com/pub/security/socks.cstc/socks.cstc.4.2.pre1.tar.gz
Yeah, the version numbers are pretty useless, and they don't reflect
anything close to the number of features and changes that went into
the program, but whatreyagonnado.
The "pre1" release turns those client messages off by default. Just
build yourself a new libsocks.a and link that with the rftp client,
and you are good to go.
--
Matt Ranney - mjr@syl.dl.nec.com
"You know, I don't think theres a man, woman, or child alive today
who doesn't enjoy a lovely beverage." -DL