https://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/tags/sockets/Recent content in Sockets on Lead DevOpsHugoen-USWed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/socat-unix-socket-tcp-forwarding/Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://lead-devops.blackdevhub.online/en/posts/socat-unix-socket-tcp-forwarding/<p>Sometimes you need to reach a Unix socket from a host where that socket doesn&rsquo;t physically exist. SSH tunnels won&rsquo;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 client just connects over the network.</p> <h2 id="installation">Installation </h2> <p>The package is available in every major distribution. On Debian/Ubuntu:</p> <div class="td-code td-code--untitled" id="td-code-553060c8-fence-0" data-td-code data-td-code-auto-id data-td-language="bash" data-td-line-count="1"> <div class="td-code__viewport" id="td-code-553060c8-fence-0-viewport" data-td-code-viewport><div class="highlight"><pre tabindex="0" class="chroma"><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="line"><span class="cl">apt install socat</span></span></code></pre></div></div> </div> <p>On RHEL/CentOS:</p>