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This is CSTC version 4.2 of SOCKS, a package that allows Unix hosts
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behind a firewall to gain full access to the internet without requiring
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direct IP reachability. It does require a SOCKS server program being
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run on a hosts that can communicate directly to hosts behind the firewall
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as well as hosts on the Internet at large. It is based on the original
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SOCKS written by David Koblas <koblas@netcom.com>.
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The package includes full source for the SOCKS server and SOCKSified
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client programs of finger, ftp, telnet, and whois. A few other SOCKSified
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clients may be found on ftp.nec.com, in directory /pub/security/socks.cstc.
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Increasingly, software developers are beginning to include SOCKS support
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directly into their products, for example, Mosaic, Netscape, Trumpet
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Winsock, TCP/Connect II (from InterCon for Macintosh; they also intend
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to do so for their Windows version), OutsideVew for Windows (from Crystal
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Point, currently in beta).
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