rofl0r / rofl0r/proxychains-ng

proxychains-ng doesn't work with rsync.

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Description

As shown below:

$ proxychains-ng-socks5 rsync -avvvP --delete rsync://rsync.dante.ctan.org/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ .
opening tcp connection to rsync.dante.ctan.org port 873
Connected to rsync.dante.ctan.org (224.0.0.2)
rsync: did not see server greeting
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1863) [Receiver=3.2.7]
[Receiver] _exit_cleanup(code=5, file=main.c, line=1863): about to call exit(5)

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Zhao

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Start by reproducing the issue with the shown proxychains-ng-socks5 rsync command and inspect how proxychains-ng handles the rsync connection. Done means the command receives the rsync server greeting and completes its transfer through the configured proxy.

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Assessment

Tech stack
c
Domain
networking
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
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Newbie friendliness
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