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| author | dequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar> | 2016-10-30 01:05:13 -0300 |
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| committer | dequis <dx@dxzone.com.ar> | 2016-10-30 01:05:13 -0300 |
| commit | 2ee71dd379cbe5bdb2170484e1a00620c9933c6c (patch) | |
| tree | 6cfda814e2840d5f5f689bed7ec88979ac8b3484 | |
| parent | 84ecb31c45daf529c639cce1b86bf9c61651e8ab (diff) | |
| download | irssi.github.io-2ee71dd379cbe5bdb2170484e1a00620c9933c6c.zip | |
startup: mention some stuff about socks proxies
| -rw-r--r-- | documentation/startup/index.markdown | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/documentation/startup/index.markdown b/documentation/startup/index.markdown index 033c9f0..4b5dddb 100644 --- a/documentation/startup/index.markdown +++ b/documentation/startup/index.markdown @@ -526,7 +526,13 @@ Irssi proxy works fine with other IRC clients as well. **SOCKS** -Irssi can be compiled with socks support (`\--with-socks` option to configure), but I don't really know how it works, if at all. `/SET proxy` settings don't have anything to do with socks however. +Irssi can be compiled with socks support (`\--with-socks` option to configure), which requires "dante" and routes all connections through the proxy specified in the system-wide /etc/socks.conf. This method is known to have issues in Mac OS X. + +Note that `/SET proxy` settings don't have anything to do with socks. + +Using [proxychains-ng][] is recommended over recompiling irssi. + +[proxychains-ng]: https://github.com/rofl0r/proxychains-ng **Others** |