Re: some strange proxy results

Mike Mattice <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.irc.bopm
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 06:37:27AM -0800, ongeboren wrote:
> --- Andy Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > If that is a problem then set up a simple inetd
> > service that echoes a
> > unique string and have all your BOPMs connect to
> > that.  This is
> > mentioned in the docs somewhere.
> 
> 
> It means the bopm cannot determine if the proxy really
> does the connection to the spesified target_ip ?
> cool..
> 
> Is suppose setting up some kind of echo daemon would
> really be the right solution. If I write it from
> scratch, will I reinvent something existing?

Why?  use inetd.

inetd.conf:
bopm-confirm    stream  tcp     nowait.8000     nobody /bin/echo CONFIRM $randomstringthatishuge

services:
bopm-confirm    $selectedportnumber/tcp



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