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REDSOCKS(8) System Manager's Manual REDSOCKS(8)

NAME

redsocks - redirect any TCP connection to a SOCKS or HTTP proxy

SYNOPSIS

redsocks [options]

DESCRIPTION

redsocks is a daemon running on the local system, that will transparently tunnel any TCP connection via a remote SOCKS4, SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy server. It uses the system firewall's redirection facility to intercept TCP connections, thus the redirection is system-wide, with fine-grained control, and does not depend on LD_PRELOAD libraries.

Redsocks supports tunneling TCP connections and UDP packets. It has authentication support for both, SOCKS and HTTP proxies.

Also included is a small DNS server returning answers with the "truncated" flag set for any UDP query, forcing the resolver to use TCP.

OPTIONS

Write the process ID to pidfile.
Use config as configuration file.
Test configuration file syntax.

SEE ALSO

iptables(8), /etc/redsocks.conf, /usr/share/doc/redsocks/README.gz

AUTHOR

redsocks was written by Leonid Evdokimov <leon@darkk.net.ru>

This manual page was written by Apollon Oikonomopoulos <apoikos@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

November 14, 2011