how should I secure my socks5 server?

by Phillip Thomps » Sat, 23 Nov 2002 01:14:01

hello,

I'm running the socks5 server available from NEC on my RH7.2 box. I
have a single line in my /etc/socks5.conf file:
permit - - 127.0.0. - - - -

I ssh to this box and use port forwarding to send traffic to port 1080
over ssh. It works. Good.

The problem is that I get warning messages from some servers when
using IRC, saying my socks server isn't secure blah blah blah. They
won't let me connect.

I thought my socks5.conf file above would only allow the localhost to
use the socks proxy. Am I mistaken?

Is there a better way? PLEASE provide a sample socks5.conf and any
other necessary config info if so.

thanks!
Phil

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