In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: |Kai Grossjohann said: |> |> >>>>> "Douglas" == Douglas Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: |> |> Douglas> However, my Debian Linux machine can reach outside the |> Douglas> firewall and access their home server for them. |> |> I think it would not be too difficult to write a POP proxy. You write |> a little program that runs on your Debian box that pretends to be a |> POP server, but what it really does is to open a connection to the |> *real* POP server of your friends and forward all commands to that |> server. | |There is a little program which comes with INN which can do this |(backends/rcompress.c). It can be altered to forward connections to any server |on any port. I've used it to forward NNTP connections past a firewall, using |tcp_wrapper in inetd to control access.
My first though went for SOCKS. Thought I never got around to use it, from what I saw it looks like this is an Internet standard for doing generic application-level proxying. In any case, make sure that wnatever you install on the firewall doesn't let outsiders to connect back in. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Anonymous
