SOCKS5 problems

[Vaughn Treude]

> Hello everyone again:

Last week I sent a message detailing my problems getting the SOCKS5 proxy working on my LAN.   I encounter this funny problem regardless
of whether I'm trying to connect to the firewall from SocksCap on my Windows machine or Netscape on my other Linux box.  The message says
that the proxy has received
a request with an "Incompatible Version Number 71."

Now I've done a bit more homework since then.  I checked the SOCKS5 source and discovered that the
client was supposed to be sending its SOCKS version (either 4 or 5) to the host.  It seems unlikely that
BOTH Netscape and SocksCap would be perpetrating this identical error.  So my guess would be that I
somehow built Socks5 incorrectly.

I reran the build, this time with the "with-threads" option (which I should've done the first time) and the install.   I then ran the
Socks5 daemon in debug mode.  The log file no longer included an entry about having not been compiled with the threads option, but
otherwise the problems were the same.  I still had the clients
telling SOCKS5 that they were "socks 71" clients.

I was wondering if there were any SOCKS gurus out there who could help me figure out what I might have done wrong.  I'm running Mandrake
7.0 on the firewall (and the client box.)  I've reviewed the README and INSTALL files and don't see anything about telling the "configure"
script that I'm using Linux.   The script appears to be smart enough to look at all the library, compiler, and linker parameters of the
system in question, but that seems like that'd be a pretty difficult thing to get right universally.  I wonder if there's some kind of
"endianness" or other setting I've neglected.  (I did check the "config.log" file, it complains about not being able to find a certain
thread library, but if that's the case, why does the thing compile and run?)

I've included the previous message for reference.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Vaughn Treude

> Hello everyone:
>     I'm trying to get SOCKS5 working on my firewall machine so the other machines on my LAN can access the internet.  I've downloaded,
> compiled, and installed SOCKS5 from the NEC website; it appears to start OK.  I also downloaded SOCKSCAP from NEC and put it on one of
> my Windows machines.  I added Explorer to the list of SocksCap clients and attempted to start it.   But no matter how closely I follow
> the instructions, the authentification fails and kicks me out!   I ran socks5 in debug mode, and here's some of the output:  As you can
> see, it seems to be working OK until it gets that mysterious error "Incompatible Version Number 71."
> Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Vaughn Treude
> Nakota Software, Inc.
>
> 27534:000000: Accept: Waiting on accept or a signal
> 27538:000000: Child: Starting
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 1079 <= 65535)?
> 27538:000000: Route: Line 6: Matched
> 27538:000000: Checking Authentication
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 1079 <= 65535)?
> 27538:000000: Auth: Line 7: Matched
> 27538:000000: Socks5: Told client to do authentication method #2
> 27538:000000: UPWD: Password file is /etc/socks5.passwd
> 27538:000000: UPWD: successful: user is lowell
> 27538:000000: Socks5: Read initial protocol
> 27538:000000: Socks5: Read address part of protocol
> 27538:000000: Proxy: vers:5 cmnd:1 addr:192.168.1.101 port:1080 user:lowell
> 27538:000000: Resolve Names: Starting
> 27538:000000: Resolve Names: Looking up service name
> 27538:000000: Resolve Names: Looking up next proxy
> 27538:000000: Proxy: dst on the same subnet
> 27538:000000: Resolve Names: No Next Proxy
> 27538:000000: TCP Connection Request: Connect (192.168.1.3:1079 to 192.168.1.101:1080) for user lowell
> 27538:000000: Checking Authorization
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking commands: Anything is ok
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking auths: Anything is ok
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 1079 <= 65535)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 1080 <= 65535)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking username, lowell is in -
> 27538:000000: Perm: Line 8:matched
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27538:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 1080 <= 65535)?
> 27538:000000: Route: Line 6: Matched
> 27534:000000: Parent: 3 children
> 27540:000000: Child: Starting
> 27540:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27540:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 2581 <= 65535)?
> 27540:000000: Route: Line 6: Matched
> 27540:000000: Checking Authentication
> 27540:000000: Check: Checking host address (0001a8c0 == 0001a8c0)?
> 27540:000000: Check: Checking port range   (0 <= 2581 <= 65535)?
> 27540:000000: Auth: Line 7: Matched
> 27534:000000: Accept: Waiting on accept or a signal
> 27538:000000: lsSendResponse: reply is (192.168.1.101:2581)
> 27538:000000: lsSendResponse: response sent
> 27538:000000: TCP out interface 192.168.1.101:2581
> 27538:000000: TCP Connection Established: Connect (192.168.1.3:1079 to 192.168.1.101:1080) for user lowell
> 27538:000000: Flow Setup: Allocated Buffer
> 27538:000000: Flow Recv: Reading from client socket
> 27538:000000: Flow Recv: Read 223 bytes from client socket
> 27538:000000: Flow Send: Writing 223 bytes to server socket
> 27538:000000: Flow Send: Wrote 223 bytes to server
> 27540:000000: Proxy: Received request with incompatible version number: 71
> 27540:000000: Auth Failed: (192.168.1.101:2581)
>
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