Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Monday, Jul 28, 2003

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.

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:

Server changes:
 o Fix bug that prevented rfc931 auth (ident) from working, patch from
  "Meno Abels" <Meno.Abels@7d.net>.

 o Workaround for 'bswap_32' header bug on linux.

Other changes:

See NEWS for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from
the previous version of Dante:
  Server part:

  Client part:



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