Yes, thank you for the suggestion we have socks
servers but, I don't really want to use SOCKS unless I
have to. I can't tell the unix users to compile their
own socks client. Plus, I don't run the SOCKS servers
and the SOCKS guy does not support the NEC socks UNIX
client... HUGE network..
acs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
>Some years ago I had the same problem within IBM. I
>had my firewall, I had an internal DNS which did not
>resolve the external names and the default gateway
was >pointing to any direction but not to the
Internet.
>At that time SOCKS was the (at least for me) ultimate
>solution. On your client you specify the IP-address
of >the SOCKS server and which packets have to go to
the >SOCKS server and which not. You can also specify
a >special SOCKS nameserver, which can resolve the
>Internet names.
>Details you will find at http://www.socks.nec.com.
>BTW SSH (at least the source code version) does
>support SOCKS.
have fun ...
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