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  • socat: Forwarding Unix Sockets Over TCP

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    Sometimes you need to reach a Unix socket from a host where that socket doesn’t physically exist. SSH tunnels won’t help — they only work with TCP ports. socat solves this: it opens a TCP listener and forwards connections to a Unix socket, and the …

    Sometimes you need to reach a Unix socket from a host where that socket doesn’t physically exist. SSH tunnels won’t help — they only work with TCP ports. socat solves this: it opens a TCP listener and forwards connections to a Unix socket, and the …