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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Hello. I use socat to connect stunnel to a socks proxy on my client workstation running windows. the socks proxy then connects to a news server on the internet. The initial connection works just fine and it appears to stay connected while I am transferring data and for a while afterwards; but after a period of idle connection say five or ten minutes, I get a message from my network adaptor popup saying that the connection stunnel had to my localhost has failed. Any ideas on how I can make the connection between stunnel and localhost persist longer during periods of inactivity? I would like it to stay connected until I purposely stop it. Below is the relevant section of “stunnel.conf”.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>[newsreader_to_newsserver]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>accept = 127.0.0.1:120<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>connect = 127.0.0.1:5630<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>CAfile = peer-news_certificate.pem<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>verify = 3<o:p></o:p></span></font></p><p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Calibri><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p></div></body></html>