From 2ee71dd379cbe5bdb2170484e1a00620c9933c6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dequis Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 01:05:13 -0300 Subject: startup: mention some stuff about socks proxies --- documentation/startup/index.markdown | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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** -- cgit v1.2.3