dns2tcpd(1)

👑 dns2tcpd — the manual page, but make it a group chat

okay bestie, you're reading the dns2tcpd(1) page from the General Commands Manual (section 1, we love a section 1 moment 💅). buckle up, this one's a tunneling baddie.

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✨ NAME ✨

dns2tcpd — a tunneling tool that encapsulates TCP traffic over DNS. fr fr that's the whole personality 🦋

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dns2tcpd [ -h ] [ -F ] [ -i address ] [ -f config_file ] [ -p pidfile ]
[ -d debug_level ]

that's it. that's the whole summoning ritual 💖

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

okay so dns2tcp is a network tool that encapsulates TCP communications in DNS. the vibe is: when connections show up on a specific port, all that TCP traffic gets yeeted over to the remote dns2tcpd server and then forwarded to a specific host and port. and bestie, multiple connections are supported — it's giving main character energy, not one-connection-wonder energy 🔥

lowkey it was written for demonstration purposes. iconic of it honestly.

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -h — help menu. your little emergency SOS button 🫶
• -F — run in foreground. no hiding in the background, we're being perceived ✨
• -i address — IP address to bind (default 0.0.0.0). if you don't pick one, it picks everything for you 💀
• -f config file — the configuration file to use. your little instruction manual 🍓
• -p pidfile — the file where our pid will be written. yes, it's writing about itself, very main character 📝
• -d debug level — change the debug level. levels available are 1, 2 or 3. three whole levels, choose your fighter 👑

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🌈 CONFIGURATION FILES 🌈

by default, ${HOME}/.dns2tcprcd is used if no configuration file is specified. no cap, that's the default bestie.

the resource syntax is:

<resource-name>:<server>:<port>

you can define multiple resources in multilines, but they must be comma separated. don't skip the commas, that's the rules 🙈

here is an example (steal it, it's cute):

listen = 127.0.0.1
port = 53
user = nobody
chroot = /tmp
pid_file = /var/run/dns2tcp.pid
domain = dns2tcp.hsc.fr
debug_level = 0
resources = ssh:127.0.0.1:22 , smtp:127.0.0.1:25,
            pop3:10.0.0.1:110

⚠️ note that resources line wraps across two lines in the original and the resources are comma separated — keep it exactly like that, bestie, no reformatting 💖

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

Olivier Dembour <olivier.dembour@hsc.fr> — the icon, the legend, the moment. we stan 🌟

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• ssltunnel — go read that one too, it's in the same friend group 💜

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okay that's the whole page, you ate that. this was the dns2tcpd(1) manual page, living in the General Commands Manual section, and that's a wrap — periodt 💅✨🎀