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SOCKS servers are a form of proxy that are commonly used
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in firewalled LAN environments to allow access between networks,
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and often to the Internet.
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The problem is that most applications don't know how to gain
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access through SOCKS servers.
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This means that network based applications
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that don't understand SOCKS are very limited in networks they can reach.
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An example of this is simple 'telnet'.
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If you're on a network firewalled from the internet
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with a SOCKS server for outside access,
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telnet can't use this server and thus can't telnet out to the Internet.
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tsocks' role is to allow these non SOCKS aware applications
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(e.g telnet, ssh, ftp etc) to use SOCKS without any modification.
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It does this by intercepting the
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calls that applications make to establish network connections
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and negotating them through a SOCKS server as necessary.
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WWW: http://tsocks.sourceforge.net
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