tsocks-general — General discussion related to tsocks

[Tsocks-general] Configuration Question

[Ali J. <ali...@gm...>]

Hi
I have wanproxy setup to create a WAN link between two servers as follows :

Wanproxy Client listening on port 80 <-> Wanproxy server -->>> Internet

As you know not all devices/programs support SOCKS so I did setup VPN now I
did setup


VPN on WP Client Server <-- ?? tsocks ?? --> Wanproxy Client listening on
port 80 <-> Wanproxy server -->>> Internet

My Clients can connect through VPN to the Wan proxy client server which is
running tsocks, I did configure tsocks as follows :

server = 127.0.0.1
server_port = 80
server_type = 5
local = 10.0.0.0/255.0.0.0

And I did setup iptables as follows for testing :

 iptables -t nat -D PREROUTING --source 10.0.0.0/8 -p tcp --dport 80 -j
DNAT --to 127.0.0.1:80

The VPN network is 10.0.0.0/8

I did this assuming that once I get VPN connected, all traffic goes through
VPN to the socks server and then I redirect all traffic to port 80 "only
traffic on port 80 in this case" and tsocks will take care of sending this
traffic through TCP to socks.

I start Wanproxy using the following command :

tsocks /usr/sbin/wanproxy -c /etc/wanproxy.conf


But it is not working at all, VPN on it's own is working when I masquerade
the traffic and Wanproxy works when I put the SOCKS settings into a browser
"using the public IP of course". Please advice.

Regards

[Tsocks-general] new tsocks shell wrapper

[Adam K. <sc...@kh...>]

I've completely rewritten the libtsocks shell wrapper.  The replacement
posix shell script is fully capable of any configuration option
previously limited to the tsocks.conf file via command-line arguments
(plus it has full compatibility with the old script, though it echoes a
bit more so as to enable using eval).  It can also save the arguments to
a new tsocks.conf file, and it better informs the user about ~/.tsocks.conf

http://khopesh.com/scripts/tsocks


I realize this is the first list posting since Dag Weeirs's 2005 request
for a "we're not dead yet" ACK, but I still use tsocks extensively and
cannot live without it.  If no ground is to be gained here, I may have
to go straight to the packagers like Dag (for RPMs) and Tamas Szerb (for
DEBs).

In researching how to post this and publish the script, I found there is
already bug 1760999, which offers a cleaned version of Tamas's script.
Two years later and it's still an ignored bug:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1760999&group_id=17338&atid=117338

[Tsocks-general] Is tsocks development dead ?

[Dag W. <da...@wi...>]

Hi,

I'm a long-time user of tsocks and I was wondering if tsocks is officially 
dead or just hibernated ? :)

I recently had to play with Aventail and some of the features of Aventail 
would be nice to have in tsocks.

Like DNS support (ie. if dns requests for a domain or ip known to be 
behind one of the socks server, are resolved from the socks server).

--   dag wieers,  da...@wi...,  http://dag.wieers.com/   --
[all I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power]