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Proxy servers and Dnet (can't connect to them)

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A-star

Senior member
At my work we have a proxy server and a firewall.
Due to this I can't get connected to the dnet servers or any other dnet proxy server.
Any idea how I can get my blocks and flush them also?
 
You've tried using port 80 of course? and port 23? Check this for a list of pproxies that listen at port 80/23 or you can just use proxy80.teamanandtech.com or proxy23.teamanandtech.com 🙂 In the client you use a specific port number this way:

[networking]
keyserver=proxy80.teamanandtech.com:80

or

keyserver=proxy23.teamanandtech.com:23

Using a pproxy you enter the port number to connect to in the .ini in the right field.

If those don't work you can always sneaker the blocks that's what I do and it might be a little more work, but then I only fetch/flush once a week or so 😉

Hope this helps some at least,

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
My stats:
RC5
OGR-25
Seti
Gamma Flux
 
Sure thing A-star 🙂

Sneaker netting is a term used for fetching/flushing blocks (usually on a floppy) for machines with no internet connection, there are several ways to do this the most popular I think is Polo's Sneaky program (I don't have the url handy I'll see if I can find it...) or you can just fetch blocks for an offline pproxy like I do... I've got a network here with no internet connection, what I do is run a pproxy on one machine and let all the others fetch/flush to that one and update only one set of buffers for the 10-13 machines I've got crackin' here (not 24/7 tho'🙁)😉 I use a machine with internet connection to fetch/flush the blocks whenever I need, I just fire up a pproxy on it with the out-buffer from the offline machine and adjust the .ini to fetch as many blocks as I think I need... when it's done doing it's thing I shut the pproxy down, and move the in-buffer to my machine on the offline network and fire up a pproxy there too, then I tell the permanent pproxy to fetch all the blocks "my" pproxy has and I've got all the blocks my machines need in one place 😎 The flush process also goes by "my" pproxy btw (gotta love the proxysig feature in the latest win32 pproxy)😉

I'm not certain this explained it very good, please let me know what was un clear and I'll try to explain as best I can 🙂

With love and respect your fellow TA member

Two-Face
My stats:
RC5
OGR-25
Seti
Gamma Flux
 
Okay, I tried the Sneak program but it doesn't fetch the quantity of blocks I want.
Then I tried to run the pproxy.
I guess I fetched blocks but when I tried to get them from my client it said that the buffers where empty, anyone another idea?
 
Sneaky is able to fetch a maximum of 319,968 WUs (9999 packets of 2^33 keys). Not enough for you ? 😉
Well, I guess your crunchers have a good appetite... 🙂
BTW, if you can't connect with a DNETC.EXE client, then you can't use Sneaky to fetch/flush from/to a proxy (DNET or TeAm proxy) at this location. It's only a tool to fetch/flush automatically.
 
A-star

Have you tried using the IP address, instead of the domain name? If you have a machine handy, feel free to test using TA Cube's pproxy if you'd like. IP address is 207.108.218.138.

Russ, NCNE
 
I'll second Russ's last post. Sometimes the Proxy server just makes the DNS act funky. The plain IP address will frequently work, usually only on Port 80 or 23.

Keep in mind that there have been a few firewalls that we have never made it thru. DASM DASM DASM
 
A-Star..
What Russ said. I can only get through our proxy/firewall using port 80 and using the IP address instead of the DNS. 🙂
 
Don't forget about the option of HTTP tunneling. Basically what that does is to encapsulate all dnet data inside HTTP packets so to the firewall it looks like you're just browsing the net.

[networking]
nofallback=true
autofindkeyserver=no
keyserver=proxy80.teamanandtech.com:80
firewall-type=http
firewall-host=<your_proxy_server>:<your_proxy_port>

If your proxy server requires authentication, you'll have to go through the config menu to enter them because this info will be encrypted and not stored in the ini file as clear text. Good luck to you A-starand death to the firewall!

Regarding the host name vs. host address thingy, I think I found a setting in the proxyper.ini that may help. RaySun2Be, would you mind trying my pproxy again using host name? If it works, I'll reveal the secret ingredient! If not, oh well, my name is clueless! 😉
 
Clueless,
What is your proxy's name? I can try when I get back to work Monday. I would normally be able to get to my work proxy from home (thanks to Citrix and VNC 🙂), but I upgraded the pproxy box and haven't installed VNC on it yet. I KNEW there was something I forgot to do last week. DOH! 😱

The pproxy at home works fine with DNS names. 🙂
 
Clueless,

I have some machines at work and I use the http encapsule to get through our firewall. Here is the ini file:

[networking]
firewall-type=http
keyserver=clueless.2y.net:80
autofindkeyserver=no

Works like a charm. 😉

Jay
 
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