DANTED(8)

💖 DANTED(8) — the glow-up guide to danted 💖

okay bestie, sit DOWN, because we're talking about danted, aka the network proxyserver from the System Manager's Manual section 8. yes she's a big girl command, yes she runs as root, yes she's iconic. let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

danted — network proxyserver 🦋

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

danted [-DLVdhnv] [-N number] [-f file] [-p file]

like, that's the whole vibe. flags go in, socks go out. periodt 💜

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🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so Dante implements the socks standard and can function as a firewall between networks. yes, literally a whole firewall. main character energy fr fr.

Dante relays TCP and UDP both from outside the network and in, and from inside and out. bidirectional queen. she does it ALL 🫶

The options are as follows:

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• -D — Dante will detach from the controlling terminal and run in the background as a system daemon. she's leaving the group chat to go be mysterious 💀
• -L — displays the license Dante comes under. legal girlies rise 🙈
• -Nnumber — Dante will fork off number "main servers" when starting. this can be used for servers that are extremely busy, or to provide a (very) poor man's redundancy setup, since Dante will try to make these "main servers" as independent of each other as possible. > ngl bestie, setting this number to anything higher than the number of CPUs is unlikely to improve performance. she said know your limits 💀
• -V — verifies config file and exits. vibe check, then dip ✨
• -dnumber — sets the level of debugging, zero to disable. zero = chill, higher = loud 🗣️
• -ffile — Dante will read its configuration from file. custom config, custom queen 👑
• -h — shows the currently valid options. the menu, the legend, the lineup 🌈
• -n — disables TCP keep-alive messages. normally Dante enables TCP keep-alive messages so that connections from machines that have crashed, or for other reasons no longer can be reached, time out. > heads up: this can take several hours. 😭 see also the "timeout" option in danted.conf(5).
• -pfile — Dante will write the pid of the main process to this file. file. (yes, the manpage says file twice, and honestly? she's just making sure you heard her 💅)
• -v — displays Dante version. drop the version number, get the clout ⭐

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💜 SIGNALS 💜

• SIGHUP — reload the configuration file. will also reopen logfiles. glow-up without a restart, we love a soft launch ✨
• SIGINFO/SIGUSR1 — print some information about the servers current state and clients. she's spilling the tea about what's going on 🫖

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🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• TMPDIR — use TMPDIR for temporary files. Dante will use this directory for lockfiles and memory-mapped files. it is recommended that TMPDIR be set to a (local) filesystem with low latency. the directory should have read/write/execute permission by both the privileged and unprivileged userid (as specified in /etc/danted.conf), but no other non-privileged users. > bestie that last part is not a suggestion, that's a boundary 🚫

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🌈 FILES 🌈

• /etc/danted.conf — Dante server configuration file. the blueprint, the vision board, the whole plot 📓

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👑 AUTHORS 👑

for inferno Nettverk A/S:

• Michael Shuldman
• Karl-Andre' Skevik

the founding mothers/fathers of this whole operation. we stan 😌

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💖 SEE ALSO 💖

• dante.conf(5), danted.conf(5)

information about new releases and other related issues can be found on the Dante WWW home page: http://www.inet.no/dante/

information about commercial support can be found on the Dante WWW support page: http://www.inet.no/dante/support.html

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💀 BUGS 💀

see the accompanying BUGS file. new ones should be reported to dante-bugs@inet.no. > not me asking you to file a bug report, but like, politely, with receipts 📝

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and that's the whole page bestie!! 🎀 this one shipped under the System Manager's Manual banner, and the page itself is dated July 29 2013 — yes she's an elder but she's still THAT girl, no cap. go configure something iconic 💅✨🦋