Using socat to make a secure tcp connection to an irc server
Recently, I got into irc, so I installed sic and started - obviously - chatting.
But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary.
In the example section, I found this:
socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www
So I just ran
socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697
and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:
sic: remote host closed connection
with socat not complaining.
I haven't found anything useful online nor do I have good knowledge about networking (which I hope to fix soon) nor do I know if that's the right place to ask.
Thanks in advance
networking tcp socat irc
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Recently, I got into irc, so I installed sic and started - obviously - chatting.
But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary.
In the example section, I found this:
socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www
So I just ran
socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697
and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:
sic: remote host closed connection
with socat not complaining.
I haven't found anything useful online nor do I have good knowledge about networking (which I hope to fix soon) nor do I know if that's the right place to ask.
Thanks in advance
networking tcp socat irc
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Recently, I got into irc, so I installed sic and started - obviously - chatting.
But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary.
In the example section, I found this:
socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www
So I just ran
socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697
and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:
sic: remote host closed connection
with socat not complaining.
I haven't found anything useful online nor do I have good knowledge about networking (which I hope to fix soon) nor do I know if that's the right place to ask.
Thanks in advance
networking tcp socat irc
asked 8 mins ago
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Recently, I got into irc, so I installed sic and started - obviously - chatting.
But, it turns out that sic doesn't provide any security features like SSL or TCP so I in man sic, they told to use socat to establish a secure TCP connection so I installed it and read the documentary.
In the example section, I found this:
socat TCP-LISTEN:www TCP:www.domain.org:www
So I just ran
socat tcp-listen:6667,fork tcp:irc.freenode.net:6697
and tried to connect with it using sic -h 127.0.1 -p 6667 which puked out:
sic: remote host closed connection
with socat not complaining.
I haven't found anything useful online nor do I have good knowledge about networking (which I hope to fix soon) nor do I know if that's the right place to ask.
Thanks in advance
networking tcp socat irc
networking tcp socat irc
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