looking for an FTP -> SOCKS proxy

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Scott Bennett wrote:
>      On Mon, 05 Jan 2009 12:01:29 +0100 gabrix <gabrix at gabrix.ath.cx> wrote:
>> Scott Bennett wrote:
>>>      I know people are doing FTP transfers via tor, but I don't know how
>>> they are doing it.  What are people using for a proxy to sit between either
>>> a native FTP client or a web browser to do FTP transfers?
>>>      Thanks in advance for suggestions.
>>>
>>>
>> Yeah! How ???
>>
>      How what?  How do I know?  Because I see lots of exits from my relay
> on ports 20 and 21.  How can I do it?  Well, the suggestion to use proxychains
> seems to have been a fruitful one, though it would be nice if the package
> were better documented.  I changed one entry in its proxychains.conf file to
> get it to use SOCKS5 rather than SOCKS4 to connect to tor, so that it could
> forward DNS queries through tor, but it appears that a different entry causes
> proxychains to blab queries from my machine to a name server at gtei.net.
> I guess I'll have to ponder a while on how to work around that. :-(

I have good luck with each socks-aware filezilla, and lftp. lftp is 
faster and more flexible; filezilla better handles ftp ssh.

HTH