---
name: "redsocks"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "redsocks"
version: "0.5-2+b5"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/redsocks"
---

# redsocks(8)

redirect any TCP connection to a SOCKS or HTTP proxy

## 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

- **-p pidfile**

  Write the process ID to *pidfile*.

- **-c config**

  Use *config* as configuration file.

- **-t**

  Test configuration file syntax.

## SEE ALSO

[**iptables**(8)](/iptables/8.md), /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).