Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway Tuesday, June 24, 2002 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. Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other changes the following: Client changes: o fix some problems when socksifying, making certain programs hang forever (e.g. certain versions/installations of "ssh -X"). Thanks to NISHIMURA Daisuke for diagnosis, help and testing. Server changes: o AIX needs n{recv,send}msg when calling system functions. Reported by Tom Chan . o Fix some bugs in bandwidth module. Users using a version older than "bandwidth.c,v 1.18" can contact sales for a upgrade. o Fix a bug in logprinting, reported by Borsenkow Andrej . o Reset buffering after sighup. Also, always linebuffer logoutput. Fixes some problems with loglineoverlap, problem found by Borsenkow Andrej . This deprecates the "-l" option to sockd. Other changes: See NEWS for a more complete list. Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from the previous version of Dante: Server part: None. Client part: None. For more information, please see "http://www.inet.no/dante/".