Dear Yoshio: Hi. You don't know me, but the Internet has caused our paths to cross. I found a solution that can help us both when it comes to using Los Angeles Free-Net to make remote ssh/ftp/telnet connections through LAFN's socks proxy.
While looking for a solution, I found a post you made back in February where you say "currently I get 'no route to host' when I try commands telnet/ftp/ssh": "[UCLA-LUG] ssh via proxy?" http://www.linux.ucla.edu/pipermail/linux/2001-February/004507.html Then I found this message (which was written by me, alas, then forgotten about) from April on the debian-firewall list: "Re: Using socks4-clients with proxy at L.A. Free-Net (LAFN)" http://lists.debian.org/debian-firewall-0104/msg00031.html All that's needed is to edit a file (refer to ``man socks.conf''). Here's what mine looks like: ~$ cat /etc/socks.conf # socks configuration #direct 127.0.0.1 255.255.255.255 #direct 10.7.10.255 255.255.255.0 #sockd 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 #direct 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 sockd @=206.117.18.6 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 ppp0 ~$ I think the solution there should work on your Red Hat 7.0 box. It works for me on a Debian GNU/Linux (2.2r3) box. Perhaps more students and staff at UCLA would get an account with LAFN (for just $40/year) if they knew how to configure their GNU/Linux computer to work through proxy servers (so far I've been able to configure "everything" to work with LAFN). Below is an example (commands + stderr). We can see that the connection is established. Mr. Joost Kooij said it was going to be a simple solution, and sure enough it was! Unfortunately I saw many dozens of email messages and Usenet postings that had the "no route to host" problem behind a proxy firewall, but almost none mentioned socks.conf (the default route in /etc/socks.conf is "direct", thus the "no route to host"). I think it's just a matter of self-education, and educating the educators. hope this email helped... ------------------------------------------------------- ~$ ssh -v [EMAIL PROTECTED] SSH Version 1.2.27 [i686-unknown-linux], protocol version 1.5. Standard version. Does not use RSAREF. debian: Reading configuration data /etc/ssh-nonfree/ssh_config debian: Applying options for * debian: ssh_connect: getuid 1000 geteuid 0 anon 0 debian: Connecting to marxists.org [216.39.174.30] port 22. debian: Allocated local port 1023. debian: Connection established. debian: Remote protocol version 1.99, remote software version OpenSSH_2.9p2 debian: Waiting for server public key. debian: Received server public key (768 bits) and host key (1024 bits). Host key not found from the list of known hosts. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)? no ~$ ------------------------------------------------------- ~# ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1 RX packets:22135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:22135 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol inet addr:192.168.9.43 P-t-P:206.117.18.15 Mask:255.255.255.255 UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:452 errors:1 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1 TX packets:426 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:10 ~# ------------------------------------------------------- P.S. Command ``ssh'' comes from: http://packages.debian.org/stable/non-us/ssh-socks.html Regards, -- Robert Cymbala QUEBEC CITY: /// [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leaders of 34 Western Hemisphere nations promised to create a hemisphere in which `no one is left behind.' J. GERSTENZANG (LA Times), 4/23/2001
