Error creating socket: Connection failed: Operation now in progress

[hdm at metasploit.com (H D Moore)]

If you are behind a proxy server, you need to configure the framework to 
use that proxy for the connection. The user guide mentions the proxy 
support (briefly) at:
http://metasploit.com/projects/Framework/docs/userguide/node30.html

Assuming this is a standard HTTP proxy, the syntax from msfconsole is:
msf> setg Proxies http:<ip of proxy>:<port of proxy>
msf> save

(you will need to then unsetg Proxies when using it from the LAN)

If this is a SOCKS4 compatible proxy server, just replace http with 
'socks4'. The framework does not support proxies that require user 
authentication at this time (MSProxy with NTLM, etc).

We stress-tested the proxy support a long time ago, but it is one of the 
lesser-used features and may still have some bugs.

-HD

On Saturday 27 August 2005 01:09, HASSSAN Ali Raza wrote:
> Thanx for reply. ok let me explain this error in more detail
>
> Before i was always use Metasploit on MS Windows but at this time
> I was installed Linux(WHAX) on my Laptop and i was installed the latest
> 2.4 release of Metasploit. and on another machind i was instaledl MS
> Windows 2000 Advance Server with IIS 5.0 (without patches) and put this
>  system behind a firewall (Watch guard) and set rule to allow traffic
> on port 80 TO and FROM web server. and now using dial up connection i m
> trying to exploit this web server using "iis_fp30reg_chunked" exploit
> with win32_reverse_meterpreter. at that time i was got this "Error
> creating socket: Connection failed: Operation now in progress"
>
> here is few more things
> 1- when i try to exploit this web server using LAN at that time i was
> successfully exploit it But via dia up connection i can't :( yes one
> thing more i m using internet via proxy server plz is there any help
> available for this....
> thanx