#include <hallo.h> * Vincent Danjean [Mon, Mar 17 2008, 12:22:11PM]: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Patrick Matthäi] > >> is there any reason to encrypt your traffic on downloading packages? > >> I think this will only cause more traffic and cpu overhead on the > >> mirrors instead of help anything. > > > > I took is request to ask for SOCKS support, not encrypted connections. > > I know that I've used the SOCKS feature of OpenSSH some times to get > > out of a network with limited accessibility, and being able to use > > apt-get (or aptitude) with such network tunnel would be useful in such > > setting. > > I also setup tunnel (ssh -L ... + wwwoffle on the other end + http_proxy) > for apt. The goal is not to encrypt the flow but to jump thru restricted > firewalls (only outgoing ssh connection and even not everywhere). > Adding support for SOCKS would avoid the need of wwwoffle in these cases.
apt-cache show tsocks You configure ssh to do "dynamic port forwarding" and point tsocks to localhost at the defined socks port, then run apt-get through tsocks. Regards, Eduard. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
