NAME

sockd - Socks 5 proxy server

SYNOPSIS

/usr/local/sbin/sockd {[start] | [stop] | [restart]}

DESCRIPTION

The sockd server allows applications behind a firewall to establish outside network connections. The application makes a connection to the sockd server, authenticates itself (if required), then sockd establishes a network connection on behalf of the application, then transparently transfers the data between the two connections.

This Socks 5 server does not yet support UDP connections. sockd supports TCP connections only.

“sockd start” starts the Socks 5 server, reading its configuration from /usr/local/etc/socksrc. “sockd stop” shuts down the Socks server, terminating any active connections. “sockd restart” re-reads the server configuration from /usr/local/etc/socksrc without affecting any existing network connections.

Note

Not all configuration settings are updated by sockd restart. Only changes to the “port”, “anonproxy”, “authproxy”, and “prefork” settings in /usr/local/etc/sockrc will take effect. Changes to other settings require a sockd stop, followed by sockd start to take effect.

AUTHORS

Double Precision, Inc.

NOTES

1.: socksify(1)

[set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/socksify.html

2.: socksrc(5)

[set $man.base.url.for.relative.links]/socksrc.html

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