The SOCKS server will typically evaluate the request based on source
and destination addresses, and return one or more reply messages, as
appropriate for the request type.
RFC 1928 SOCKS Protocol Version 5 March 1996
5. Addressing
In an address field (DST.ADDR, BND.ADDR), the ATYP field specifies
the type of address contained within the field:
o X'01'
the address is a version-4 IP address, with a length of 4 octets
o X'03'
the address field contains a fully-qualified domain name. The first
octet of the address field contains the number of octets of name that
follow, there is no terminating NUL octet.
o X'04'
the address is a version-6 IP address, with a length of 16 octets.
6. Replies
The SOCKS request information is sent by the client as soon as it has
established a connection to the SOCKS server, and completed the
authentication negotiations. The server evaluates the request, and
returns a reply formed as follows:
+----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+
|VER | REP | RSV | ATYP | BND.ADDR | BND.PORT |
+----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+
| 1 | 1 | X'00' | 1 | Variable | 2 |
+----+-----+-------+------+----------+----------+
Where:
o VER protocol version: X'05'
o REP Reply field:
o X'00' succeeded
o X'01' general SOCKS server failure
o X'02' connection not allowed by ruleset
o X'03' Network unreachable
o X'04' Host unreachable
o X'05' Connection refused
o X'06' TTL expired
o X'07' Command not supported
o X'08' Address type not supported
o X'09' to X'FF' unassigned
o RSV RESERVED
o ATYP address type of following address
RFC 1928 SOCKS Protocol Version 5 March 1996
o IP V4 address: X'01'
o DOMAINNAME: X'03'
o IP V6 address: X'04'
o BND.ADDR server bound address
o BND.PORT server bound port in network octet order
Fields marked RESERVED (RSV) must be set to X'00'.
If the chosen method includes encapsulation for purposes of
authentication, integrity and/or confidentiality, the replies are
encapsulated in the method-dependent encapsulation.
CONNECT
In the reply to a CONNECT, BND.PORT contains the port number that the
server assigned to connect to the target host, while BND.ADDR
contains the associated IP address. The supplied BND.ADDR is often
different from the IP address that the client uses to reach the SOCKS
server, since such servers are often multi-homed. It is expected
that the SOCKS server will use DST.ADDR and DST.PORT, and the
client-side source address and port in evaluating the CONNECT
request.
BIND
The BIND request is used in protocols which require the client to
accept connections from the server. FTP is a well-known example,
which uses the primary client-to-server connection for commands and
status reports, but may use a server-to-client connection for
transferring data on demand (e.g. LS, GET, PUT).
It is expected that the client side of an application protocol will
use the BIND request only to establish secondary connections after a
primary connection is established using CONNECT. In is expected that
a SOCKS server will use DST.ADDR and DST.PORT in evaluating the BIND
request.
Two replies are sent from the SOCKS server to the client during a
BIND operation. The first is sent after the server creates and binds
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