Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday, November 21, 2000

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

Dante is developed by Inferno Nettverk, a consulting company located
in Oslo Research Park, Norway.  Inferno Nettverk provides services
around 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 also provides various commercial services related
to Dante, including support, porting and embedding.

Dante implements v4 and v5 (sans GSSAPI) of the socks protocol and
has experimental support for the msproxy protocol.
Dante also includes an extension to the Socks v4/v5 protocol that
provides a more generic bind(2) functionality, similar to what
ordinary programs expect.  This allows one to run standard server
applications like e.g. ftpd behind the Dante socks server.


This release is a bugfix release intended to fix a problem where
if someone sent a negative hostnamelength, the Dante server's internal
checks would detect this and it would then abort with a "internal
error detected" message.

Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other
changes the following:
 o fix a bug related to hostnamelength parsing in server.
   Thanks to "Thomas Jarosch" <thomas.jarosch@styletec.de>.
See the NEWS file for a more complete list.

Special compatibility notes for users upgrading from
the previous version of Dante:
  Server part:
    None known.

  Client part:
    None known.

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