Package tsocks: Information
Source package: tsocks
Version: 1.8-alt1
Build time: Sep 24, 2010, 07:40 PM
Category: Security/Networking
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License: GPLv2+
Summary: Library for catching network connections, redirecting them on a SOCKS server
Description:
tsocks is designed for use in machines which are firewalled from the Internet. It avoids the need to recompile applications like lynx or telnet so they can use SOCKS to reach the Internet. It behaves much like the SOCKSified TCP/IP stacks seen on other platforms. tsocks is a library to allow transparent SOCKS proxying. It wraps the normal connect() function. When a connection is attempted, it consults the configuration file (which is defined at configure time but defaults to /etc/tsocks.conf) and determines if the IP address specified is local. If it is not, the library redirects the connection to a SOCKS server specified in the configuration file. It then negotiates that connection with the SOCKS server and passes the connection back to the calling program.
Maintainer: Mykola Grechukh
Last changed
Sept. 24, 2010 Mykola Grechukh 1.8-alt1
- built for ALT Linux
Jan. 6, 2010 Jean-Francois Saucier <jfsaucier@infoglobe.ca> - 1.8-0.5.beta5
- Fix the library path problem more cleanly - Fix bash script validation to handle the no argument case - Change patch name to reflect guidelines - Fix documentation to reflect patch modifications - Remove INSTALL from packaged files
Dec. 14, 2009 Jean-Francois Saucier <jfsaucier@infoglobe.ca> - 1.8-0.4.beta5
- Fix the library path problem on x86_64 and ppc64 - Elaborate the summary and description fields