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 /etc/socksrc. "sockd stop" shuts down the Socks server, terminating any active connections. "sockd restart" re-reads the server configuration from /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 /etc/sockrc will take effect. Changes to other settings require a sockd stop, followed by sockd start to take effect. |