Setting up proxy for CLI programs like dig

duryodhan · 11-06-2006, 10:59 AM

I connect to the net through a proxy. Everything runs fine thru FireFox etc.

But now if I want to do something like :
%traceroute www.google.com

It doesn't work. It is able to resolve the ip correctly for google.com but after that it all hangs up.

I guess this is because it doesn't know that it has to go through 172.*.*.* port 8080 to connect to the net. How could I configure this for dig,traceroute etc. etc.?

Thanks

Alien Bob · 11-06-2006, 12:24 PM

Not.
Your proxy can only handle http traffic (and perhaps https and ftp as well), which dig, traceroute, ping etc... are not.

Eric

duryodhan · 11-06-2006, 02:31 PM

But I use services like Google Talk, Messenger etc. on that proxy....

Alien Bob · 11-06-2006, 04:38 PM

Yes, these can use a HTTP proxy for their communication. This is a good thing, because most corporate networks only allow HTTP traffic out. Ping, dig, traceroute are completely unrelated protocols.

Eric