From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: internet access through proxy... Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 00:16:25 -0700 Message-ID: <428302C9.50403@comarre.com> References: <652016d30505112356347dff09@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <652016d30505112356347dff09@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org Manish Regmi wrote: > Hi, > > My PC uses a proxy server to connect to the internet. I can easily > assess the internet by changing the Browser options. But i am unable > to use lynx, ssh, traceroute etc. > Do i need to change all of their configuration files? > If yes which one and where? > Is there any generic way? The purpose of a proxy server ... from the network manager's point of view, anyway ... is to prevent LAN users from accessing the Internet with arbitrary applications. So the way to force users to use it is to block direct access to the Internet at the firewall/router. In a proxy-server setting, you can only proxy the apps that your proxy server is willing to proxy ... and those are typically only ftp, http, and https (and maybe a couple of others I'm not thinking of right now). So no, there is no generic way to use the proxy server for everything. For ssh and traceroute, there is most likely no way at all ... and no one can tell you about "etc". As to lynx, since it is an http client, there is no reason in principle why it could not work with a proxy server. Its man page seems to say it can do so via ENV variables of the form *_proxy, for example http_proxy and ftp_proxy ... but I haven't tried this. So you might look at the man page ... down in the section on COnfiguration ... and experiment a bit. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs