re: AOL IM

AOL IM is a "socksified" client. i.e to use aol im, you need a socks4/5
server to proxy through. other "socksified" clients include ICQ, Napster,
Agent Newsreader (you can use sockscap32..so it's not really a built in
socksified client..sockscap32 is a socks wrapper....you can 'wrap' things
like ws_ftp, agent news-reader, tera-term etc..etc..)

fwiw, install socks4/5 server from:

www.socks.nec.com

it is stable and feature-rich...the only problem i've had is running the
socks5 daemon in threaded mode on solaris. i've fixed it by preforking it
instead.

-a-

#############################
Andrew Stack
UNIX Systems Administrator
State University at New Paltz
Phone: 914.257.3828

GNU/Linux - The choice of a GNU generation.....

One good solution to solve all your windows problems
is to install some flavor of UNIX. 8-)
#############################

On Fri, 12 May 2000, Matthew wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 12 May 2000, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>
> > At 13:54 12.05.00 +0100, Martin Brooks wrote:
> > > >We are running SQUID 2.3 STABLE1. Everything works fine for us except AOL
> > > >Instant messenger (AIM).
> > >
> > >Squid is an HTTP/FTP proxy. It doesn't support IMAP, SMTP, POP2, POP3,
> > >IRC, ICQ or IM.
> >
> > Quoting from the original question:
> >
> > "AIM client confirguration has the option for connecting through a proxy and
> > using either SOCKS4, SOCKS4, or HTTPS."
> >
>
> i can't help in this situation about using squid (maybe someone else
> can?). but using ip masquerading for something like this is what i would
> do. you know the destination port 403. could you perhaps explain what
> the port 5190 is for?
>
> ipchains -p tcp -A forward -d aolserver 403 -s 192.168.0.0/16 -j MASQ
>
>
> > Squid does proxy HTTPS, so that's no reason why it shouldn't work.
> >
> > --
> > Tilman Schmidt E-Mail: Tilman.Schmidt@sema.de (office)
> > Sema Group Koeln, Germany tilman@schmidt.bn.uunet.de (private)
> >
> >
>
>
Received on Fri May 12 2000 - 10:01:47 MDT