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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 01:26:50AM -0600, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
> On Feb 20, Seth Alan Woolley [seth AT positivism.org] wrote:
> > I've setup a wiki on how to encrypt a connection directly to Tony:
> > 
> > http://wiki.sourcemage.org/index.php?page=PerforceStunnel
> 
> A couple of things:
> 
> - stunnel uses tcp wrappers if it finds them installed, so you need an
>   allow rule for this.  The service is stunnel, I can't figure out what the
>   stupid host it uses is though.  It claims to use localhost (which would
>   make sense), but stunnel:localhost doesn't do it.  stunnel:ALL works,
>   though.  I may track this down more in the source when I'm more awake if
>   someone else doesn't know the answer already...

Once you've found out, if you could add a note to the wiki about it, 
that would be great.

> 
> - It's really, really slow.  :-(  Maybe I'm just used to using the proxies
>   already?  I noticed zlib compression doesn't seem to work; is that
>   expected?

The proxies are much faster.  I think for zlib compression to work it 
would have to be enabled on the server.

Thanks for the feedback,

Seth

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