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Am 07.01.2011 03:26, schrieb <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:oscaruser@programmer.net:">oscaruser@programmer.net:</a>
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type="cite"><font color="black" face="Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif" size="2">Folks,
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<div>After searching, installing various <span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:
Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Linuces</span> (in the
2.6 family), e.g. CentOS, Ubuntu, and so on, I have not been
able to get transparent proxy working at all. As such since it
the function does not work, and there is great debate as to
whether it ever worked, I would like to propose that this
keyword and reference to its function be discarded entirely.
This will save many folks a great deal of time and effort
attempting to try and get it to work, myself having spent over
80 hours (including my precious holiday time) trying to dig,
scratch, research up old posts that say it works or someone
has it working under such and such a configuration! The
documentation itself has folks claiming that it works and does
not, which is really a bad practice. Why did you perpetuate
this option in the first place?! </div>
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<div>I hope you see the importance and reason with my request
and act immediately.</div>
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<div> ... Unless someone really really does have it working. </div>
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Thank you
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While I have not even tried to use the "transparent" function
(stunnel runs on Windows in our environment, where "transparent" is
not supported), I would like to add my two cents: For a ssl tunnel
solution like stunnel, a "transparent" option is a very basic
necessity. Having all connections to the application come from
127.0.0.1 makes trouble shooting and auditing very problematic.
Therefore, transparent operations should be the default, not an
afterthought only available on one platform.<br>
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I therefore counter-propose to make this option work, and make it
work on all supported platforms. While I know that this will
probably not be possible, since it would require a lot of
programming work to be done, I nevertheless wanted to make it clear,
that this option is not unnecessary and should not be simply
discarded.<br>
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Greetings<br>
Markus Borst<br>
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TU Darmstadt
Hochschulrechenzentrum (HRZ)
Markus Borst
Adresse: Petersenstrasse 30, 64287 Darmstadt, Germany
Tel.: 06151/16-2056
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:M.Borst@hrz.tu-darmstadt.de">M.Borst@hrz.tu-darmstadt.de</a>
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