On Friday 18 June 2004 2:00 pm, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > Im not to sure if this is the right place to place this email, if not, then > I apologise. > > Could anyone recommend a proxy server for a adsl connection. Given that I > do not have a static IP, I was wondering if there is anything out on the the > net that could assist me with my problem. What do you mean by a "proxy"? What do you want it to do? If you mean a web proxy to allow client machines on an internal network to access websites on the Internet, try Squid http://www.squid-cache.org If you mean a dynamic DNS server which will allow other people to access your machine/s by a fixed name even though your IP address changes, then you need "dynamic DNS", for which there are many services available - try Google. If you mean a more general-purpose proxy for outbound http, ftp, smtp, ssh, pop3 etc then there are things which will do all of these for you, but not in a single open-source package. Try Google again for some ideas. If you mean an "IP proxy" (I just made up that term), which will allow internal machines on your network to access any services they like on the Internet, by using the single dynamic public IP address assigned by your ISP, then netfilter is a good choice, and what you want to do is called "masquerading". Check out the documents available at http://www.netfilter.org/documentation (especially the tutorials at the bottom) and you will find several guidelines to help you. If you mean something else, please re-post with a more specific requirement and we'll see if we can help. Regards, Antony. -- In science, one tries to tell people in such a way as to be understood by everyone something that no-one ever knew before. In poetry, it is the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac Please reply to the list; please don't CC me.
