Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Monday, March 21, 2011


Inferno Nettverk A/S is pleased to announce a new release of
Dante - a free SOCKS client and server implementation for UNIX.

Dante is developed by Inferno Nettverk A/S, a UNIX consulting company
located in Oslo Research Park, Norway.

Inferno Nettverk specializes in services related to software development
and porting on UNIX/Linux and embedded/real-time platforms.

Please see http://www.inet.no/english/services.html for more information
about our services.

Dante is free software, available under a BSD-like license.
Inferno Nettverk also provides commercial services related to Dante.
These services include 24/7 support via phone and email, customized
installations/tuning of Dante, development, porting and embedding.

The Dante software consists of two parts, packed into one archive.
1) The server part, supporting socks v4 and socks v5.
2) The client part, supporting socks v4, socks v5, http v1.0, and UPnP.

In addition to standard socks authentication methods, Dante includes
the following additional methods: PAM and RFC931 (the ident protocol).

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 is a maintenance release mostly intended to fix a few bugs.
Compared to the previous release, this version brings amongst other
changes the following:

Generic changes:
 o Compilation fixes for AIX 6.1.
   Thanks to Ville O Kesola <ville.kesola@fi.ibm.com.example.com> and
   Ralf Wenk <iz-dante-0910@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>.

Server changes:
 o Added back a SO_REUSEADDR flag that got lost and could create problems
   if restarting the server by killing just the main process, rather
   than using something like pkill.

   Thanks to Ralf Wenk <Ralf.Wenk@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>.

 o Relaxed the regex for hostname/ifname-parsing further, allowing the
   use of some interface names and domainnames that previously were
   not allowed.

   Fixes bugs reported by karesmakro <ipcop@it-connect-unix.de.example.com>,
   Ralf Wenk <Ralf.Wenk@hs-karlsruhe.de.example.com>, 
   and <Adam.Barclay@barclayscapital.com.example.com>.

 o Log information has been slightly extended and now includes information
   about the local endpoints also.
   Documentation for the logformat is available here:
   http://www.inet.no/dante/doc/logformat.pdf


Client changes:
 - None.

See the NEWS file for a more complete list.
Known problems: see the BUGS file.
Notes for users upgrading from the previous version of Dante, v1.2.2: None.

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

For more information about Inferno Nettverk, please see
"http://www.inet.no/en/inferno.html".