Now let me think. It's long time I idid this - not with SOCKS but FWTK.
It was a short time limited experimental thing but I remember the main
treats to security had to be handled at the client and server end. What
I did was simply have fwtk's plug-gw listen to irc port from inside
interface and connect it to ISP's IRC server. this was in effect a
tunnel through the fw. most threats, like file transfer initiated by
someone outside our network would work fine so these options had to
disabled at the client so it was not too safe in my mind. The experiment
was luckily discontinued very soon as it turned out not to be that
usefull. My advice is you should consider very carefully before allowing
indiscriminate use of irc.
Sakari Myllym�ki
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan Tefalco [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 10:49 PM
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> Subject: Safe way to IRC
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> Is there any safe way to allow users to use IRC through a SOCKS 4/5
> firewall.?
>
> I'm running a proxy web server for http only.. on NT4, our users
> connect to
> the proxy for web access only. ftp is allowed only through IE5 and we
> have
> irc ports disabled..
> Any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
>
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