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| author |   Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> | 2017-06-14 08:36:41 -0700 |
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| committer | Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> | 2017-06-14 08:48:04 -0700 |
| commit | 58ad6e14c853928499f34ee991120ee2196058e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 2e790d43e098ce37ea25dc3cfa372abfd351ace5 /net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml | |
| parent | www-apps/gitea: Remove old (diff) | |
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net-proxy/redsocks: Ship man page, init files, etc
Also move config file to /etc/redsocks.conf (there's a single file, no
need for a directory) and add a redsocks user and group.
Diffstat (limited to 'net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml b/net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml index bf35bd06d383..8f0d16e0c220 100644 --- a/net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml +++ b/net-proxy/redsocks/metadata.xml @@ -5,6 +5,21 @@ <email>mattst88@gentoo.org</email> <name>Matt Turner</name> </maintainer> + <longdescription lang="en"> + Redirect any TCP connection to a SOCKS or HTTPS proxy server 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. + </longdescription> <upstream> <remote-id type="github">darkk/redsocks</remote-id> </upstream> |