Inferno Nettverk A/S, Oslo, Norway
Tuesday, June 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 and UPnP.

In addition to standard SOCKS authentication methods (none,
username/password, and GSS-API), Dante also includes support for the
following additional methods:
  - BSD auth (on OpenBSD)
  - PAM
  - 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 bugfix release correcting a few mistakes in the Dante 1.3.0
release.

Changes include the following:

Server changes:
 o Fixed a bug regarding handling of socks clients that do not follow the
   spec and start sending traffic data before request has been granted.

 o Fixed an error related to ACL on UDP-packets.  If a given SOCKS
   client was allowed to send some UDP packets, in some cases packets
   from the same SOCKS client that should have been blocked were allowed.

See the NEWS file for a more complete list.
Known problems: see the BUGS file.
Users upgrading from previous versions of Dante: see the UPGRADE file.

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".