SOCKS without SSH?

[Warren Young]

On 4/4/2012 11:49 PM, Marilo wrote:
> I mean, purely within what is available in Cygwin, what is available to do it?

There is no standalone SOCKS proxy server in the Cygwin distribution.

If you had to have something that ran "natively" under Cygwin you'd have 
to build it yourself from source code.  These look like they should do 
the job:

	http://www.inet.no/dante/download.html
	http://ss5.sourceforge.net/software.htm

I'm not endorsing either, because the last time I used SOCKS was when I 
was also using Windows NT 3.51, and the server I used back then doesn't 
even exist any more.  (NEC -> Permeo -> Blue Coat -> oblivion.)

> While I could look to install something natively, I ask, within
> cygwin, because i'm interested in learning the cygwin tool, and
> familiarising myself more with the large array of common *nix
> commands it presents.

That's an admirable sentiment, but there's not much about a SOCKS server 
that would benefit from running under Cygwin:

- A SOCKS server doesn't access the disk to speak of, once it's running, 
so it doesn't need POSIX filesystem emulation.

- You haven't already selected a server, so it's not like you're stuck 
with one that doesn't have a native Windows port, so you need Cygwin to 
port it over.

- A SOCKS server is purely a network proxy, so it doesn't necessarily 
rely on other platform facilities.  If you're only using SOCKS v4 
features I'd be surprised if there's *anything* else in the platform the 
SOCKS server interacts with once it's running.  SOCKS v5 adds some 
authentication methods that would let you link it to the Cygwin Kerberos 
stuff, but Windows provides that just as well, so I don't see the advantage.

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