Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Friday, Dec 7, 2001

Inferno Nettverk is pleased to announce a new release of
Dante - a free socks proxy client/server implementation for UNIX.

Dante is being developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a consulting
firm located in Oslo Research Park, Norway.  Inferno Nettverk
provides services related to computer security, UNIX, and programming.
Please see http://www.inet.no/ for more information.

Dante is free software, available under a BSD/CMU license.  Inferno
Nettverk A/S also provides various commercial services related to
Dante, including support, development, porting and embedding.

The Dante package consists of two parts, packed into one archive.
1) The serverpart, supporting socks v4 and socks v5 (sans gssapi).
2) The clientpart, supporting socks v4, socks v5 (sans gssapi),
   http v1.0, and msproxy v2.0 (experimental).

In addition to standard socks authenticationmethods, Dante includes
the following additional methods: pam and rfc931 (ident).

Dante also includes an extension to the socks v4/v5 protocols which
provides a more generic bind(2) functionality, similar to what
non-socks programs expect.  This makes it possible to run standard
server applications like e.g. ftpd behind the Dante server.


This version also marks the introduction of Dante "modules".
Modules can be purchased separately from Inferno Nettverk and
integrate into existing Dante installations, providing additional
functionality.  More information about Dante modules is available
on "http://www.inet.no/dante/module.html".


Compared to the previous release, v1.1.11 brings amongst other
changes the following:

Client changes:
 o Fix bug that logged to stdout on startup sometimes.
   First reported by Vitor Choi Feitosa <vchoi@interlegis.gov.br>

 o If Rgetsockname() is called on a socket that a previous uncompleted
   Rconnect() has been done on, try to sleep until Rconnect() has 
   finished instead of returning ENOBUFS.  Hoped to help compatibility
   with some applications.

 o Fix memory overrun problem in Rgethostbyname*().  Found and
   diagnosed by dme@dme.org, thanks.

Server changes:
 o New module available: redirect, gives control over both
   where clients requests and replies will end up, aswell as what
   addresses and portranges the Dante server will use.
   It can also be used to limit the number of concurrent sessions
   from each client.
   See the module page "http://www.inet.no/dante/module.html" 
   and doc/module for more information.

 o New module available: bandwidth, gives control over how much
   bandwidth the Dante server uses on behalf of the different clients.
   See the module page "http://www.inet.no/dante/module.html" 
   and doc/module for more information.

 o Code for selecting which of multiple external ipaddresses to use
   on a global basis.  Code contributed by Tom Chan <tchan@austin.rr.com>.

 o Re-open logfiles on SIGHUP.

 o Rename "pamservicename" to "pam.servicename".

Other changes:
 o upgraded to autoconf-2.50, libtool-1.4 and automake-1.4-p4

See NEWS for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from
the previous version of Dante:
  Server part:
     o "pamservicename" renamed to "pam.servicename".  Backwards
       compatibility kept for now.

  Client part:
     None known.

For more information, please see "http://www.inet.no/dante/".