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Subject: Re: Proxy-server for AOL client???
From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw @ gs1 . cinti . net>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1996 20:39:56 -0500 (EST)
To: peter @ nmti . com (Peter da Silva)
Cc: perry @ sutr . cynic . org, ayen @ access . digex . net, firewalls @ GreatCircle . COM
In-reply-to: <9602291441 . AA20449 @ sonic . nmti . com . nmti . com> from "Peter da Silva" at Feb 29, 96 08:41:15 am

> > For what it's worth, I've written an AOL relay demon that is freely
> > available for the asking. AOL is just using a single outbound TCP
> > channel, so it's not complicated. The demon logs connections,
> > forces connections to AOL (only), and runs as "nobody" (or anybody
> > else you like) under inetd.
> 
> Huh? How does this differ from running a plug-gw?
> 
> 	Logs connections.
> 	Forces connections to a specific host/port.
> 	Runs as nobody under inetd.

> Does AOL need something more complex than this?

Nope...  I set it up about 15 months ago at a major corporate site...
You should have reasonable timeouts of course.

sdw



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