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\page ss-tunnel ss-tunnel
\brief shadowsocks tools for local port forwarding, C implementation
\section ss_tunnel_synopsis SYNOPSIS
ss-tunnel [options]
\section ss_tunnel_description DESCRIPTION
shadowsocks-c is a lightweight and secure socks5 proxy. It is a port of the original shadowsocks created by clowwindy. shadowsocks-c is written in pure C and takes advantage of libuv to achieve both high performance and low resource consumption.
shadowsocks-c consists of five components.
ss-tunnel(1) is a tool for local port forwarding.
See OPTIONS section for special option needed by ss-tunnel(1).
For more information, check out shadowsocks-libev(8).
\section ss_tunnel_options OPTIONS
Options include all supported platform variants; restrictions are noted below.
\snippet{doc} tunnel.c cli-options
\section ss_tunnel_example EXAMPLE
ss-tunnel(1) can be used to forward DNS queries to a remote DNS server through the shadowsocks tunnel. Here is an example:
# Forward local UDP port 5353 to 8.8.8.8:53 through the ss-server
ss-tunnel --server example.com:12345 --listen-port 5353 --password foobar --cipher aes-256-gcm --destination 8.8.8.8:53 --udp
# Then configure your system to use 127.0.0.1:5353 as the DNS server
dig @127.0.0.1 -p 5353 www.google.com
\section ss_tunnel_see_also SEE ALSO
ss-local(1), ss-server(1), ss-redir(1), ss-manager(1), shadowsocks-libev(8), iptables(8), /etc/shadowsocks-libev/config.json