[ale] Netscape proxy to Linux?

Andrew Newton lfs at eskimo.com
Wed Feb 5 12:40:18 EST 1997


I've got Netscape under Windows 95 running to a SOCKS proxy on Linux.
The trick to doing DNS is to not run it under SOCKS, especially since
SOCKS 4 doesn't work with UDP.  Set up a caching-only DNS server on
your Linux box.

Bob's ALE Mail wrote:
> 
> Does someone know how to set up Netscape running under winbloz 95 to
> use Proxy services on a Linux box serving as a gateway/firewall to the
> Internet?
> 
> On windows I clicked on Netscape's Network button, Proxy button, and pointed
> it to the Linux box with port 1080 for http.
> 
> On the Linux box I set up sockd (is that the right product) to be started
> by inetd.conf on port 1080.
> 
> Under this arrangement, if I still allowed the windows box to do DNS
> lookup through a separate PPP connection that it had to the Internet,
> all seemed to work.  I would see requests for www.foo.com on the Linux
> log files in /var/adm with transfer of XXX bytes.
> 
> If I told the windows box to do DNS to the Linux box all would fail with
> Netscape "connecting ... waiting for reply" and I saw "sockd[pid]:
> error -- wrong version (0x47) from host davespc."  I looked in the sockd
> code and it expected a version of 4.
> 
> I would *really* appreciate some help, pointers, etc.  I couldn't find
> any useful doc on the Netscape site and "man sockd" didn't say much either.
> 
> Thanks tremendously,
> 
> Bob Toxen
> bob at cavu.com
> transam at cavu.com [ALE]
> http://www.mindspring.com/~cavu
> Fly-By-Day Consulting, Inc.
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Andrew Newton
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