.\" $OpenBSD: relayd.conf.5,v 1.88 2008/06/11 18:21:20 reyk Exp $ .\" .\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Reyk Floeter .\" Copyright (c) 2006, 2007 Pierre-Yves Ritschard .\" .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above .\" copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. .\" .\" THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES .\" WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. 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They are used for relay and redirection target selection with the described options and health checking on the host they contain. .It Sy Redirections Redirections are translated to .Xr pf 4 rdr rules for stateful forwarding to a target host from a health-checked table on layer 3. .It Sy Relays Relays allow application layer load balancing, SSL acceleration, and general purpose TCP proxying on layer 7. .It Sy Protocols Protocols are predefined protocol handlers and settings for relays. .El .Pp Within the sections, a host .Ar address can be specified by IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or DNS hostname. A .Ar port can be specified by number or name. The port name to number mappings are found in the file .Pa /etc/services ; see .Xr services 5 for details. .Pp Comments can be put anywhere in the file using a hash mark .Pq Sq # , and extend to the end of the current line. .Pp Additional configuration files can be included with the .Ic include keyword, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent include "/etc/relayd.conf.local" .Ed .Sh MACROS Macros can be defined that will later be expanded in context. Macro names must start with a letter, and may contain letters, digits, and underscores. Macro names may not be reserved words (for example, .Ic table , .Ic relay , or .Ic timeout ) . Macros are not expanded inside quotes. .Pp For example: .Bd -literal -offset indent www1="10.0.0.1" www2="10.0.0.2" table \*(Ltwebhosts\*(Gt { $www1 $www2 } .Ed .Sh GLOBAL CONFIGURATION Here are the settings that can be set globally: .Pp .Bl -tag -width Ds -compact .It Ic demote Ar group Enable the global .Xr carp 4 demotion option, resetting the carp demotion counter for the specified interface group to zero on startup and to 128 on shutdown of the daemon. For more information on interface groups, see the .Ic group keyword in .Xr ifconfig 8 . .Pp .It Xo .Ic interval Ar number .Xc Set the interval in seconds at which the hosts will be checked. The default interval is 10 seconds. .Pp .It Xo .Ic log .Pq Ic updates Ns \&| Ns Ic all .Xc Log state notifications after completed host checks. Either only log the .Ic updates to new states or log .Ic all state notifications, even if the state didn't change. The host state can be .Ar up (the health check completed successfully), .Ar down (the host is down or didn't match the check criteria), or .Ar unknown (the host is disabled or has not been checked yet). .Pp .It Ic prefork Ar number When using relays, run the specified number of processes to handle relayed connections. This increases the performance and prevents delays when connecting to a relay. .Xr relayd 8 runs 5 relay processes by default and every process will handle all configured relays. .Pp .It Ic send trap Send an SNMP trap when the state of a host changes. .Xr relayd 8 will try to connect to .Xr snmpd 8 and request it send a trap to the registered trap receivers; see .Xr snmpd.conf 5 for more information about the configuration. .Pp .It Xo .Ic timeout Ar number .Xc Set the global timeout in milliseconds for checks. This can be overriden by the timeout value in the table definitions. The default interval is 200 milliseconds and it must not exceed the global interval. Please note that the default value is optimized for checks within the same collision domain \(en use a higher timeout, such as 1000 milliseconds, for checks of hosts in other subnets. .El .Sh TABLES Tables are used to group a set of hosts as the target for redirections or relays; they will be mapped to a .Xr pf 4 table for redirections. Tables may be defined with the following attribute: .Bl -tag -width disable .It Ic disable Start the table disabled \(en no hosts will be checked in this table. The table can be later enabled through .Xr relayctl 8 . .Pp .El Each table must contain at least one host; multiple hosts are separated by newline, comma, or whitespace. Host entries may be defined with the following attribute: .Bl -tag -width retry .It Ic retry Ar number The optional retry option adds a tolerance for failed host checks; the check will be retried for .Ar number more times before setting the host state to down. If this table is used by a relay, it will also specify the number of retries for outgoing connection attempts. .El .Pp For example: .Bd -literal -offset indent table \*(Ltservice\*(Gt { 192.168.1.1, 192.168.1.2, 192.168.2.3 } table \*(Ltbackup\*(Gt disable { 10.1.5.1 retry 2 } redirect "www" { listen on www.example.com port 80 forward to \*(Ltservice\*(Gt check http "/" code 200 forward to \*(Ltbackup\*(Gt check http "/" code 200 } .Ed .Pp Tables are used by .Ic forward to directives in redirections or relays with a set of general options, health-checking rules, and timings; see the .Sx REDIRECTIONS and .Sx RELAYS sections for more information about the forward context. Table specific configuration directives are described below. Multiple options can be appended to .Ic forward to directives, separated by whitespaces. .Pp The following options will configure the health-checking method for the table, and is mandatory for redirections: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Xo .Ic check http Ar path .Op Ic host Ar hostname .Ic code Ar number .Xc For each host in the table, verify that retrieving the URL .Ar path gives the HTTP return code .Ar number . If .Ar hostname is specified, it is used as the .Dq Host: header to query a specific hostname at the target host. .It Xo .Ic check https Ar path .Op Ic host Ar hostname .Ic code Ar number .Xc This has the same effect as above but wraps the HTTP request in SSL. .It Xo .Ic check http Ar path .Op Ic host Ar hostname .Ic digest Ar string .Xc For each host in the table, verify that retrieving the URL .Ar path produces non-binary content whose message digest matches the defined string. The algorithm used is determined by the string length of the .Ar digest argument, either SHA1 (40 characters) or MD5 (32 characters). If .Ar hostname is specified, it is used as the .Dq Host: header to query a specific hostname at the target host. The digest does not take the HTTP headers into account. Do not specify a binary object (such as a graphic) as the target of the request, as .Nm expects the data returned to be a string. To compute the digest, use this simple command: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ ftp -o - http://host[:port]/path | sha1 .Ed .Pp This gives a digest that can be used as-is in a digest statement: .Bd -literal -offset indent a9993e36476816aba3e25717850c26c9cd0d89d .Ed .It Xo .Ic check https Ar path .Op Ic host Ar hostname .Ic digest Ar string .Xc This has the same effect as above but wraps the HTTP request in SSL. .It Ic check icmp Ping hosts in this table to determine whether they are up or not. This method will automatically use ICMP or ICMPV6 depending on the address family of each host. .It Ic check script Ar path Execute an external program to check the host state. The program will be executed for each host by specifing the hostname on the command line: .Bd -literal -offset indent /usr/local/bin/checkload.pl front-www1.private.example.com .Ed .Pp .Xr relayd 8 expects a positive return value on success and zero on failure. Note that the script will be executed with the privileges of the .Qq _relayd user and terminated after .Ar timeout milliseconds. .It Xo .Ic check send .Ar data .Ic expect .Ar pattern .Op Ic ssl .Xc For each host in the table, a TCP connection is established on the port specified, then .Ar data is sent. Incoming data is then read and is expected to match against .Ar pattern using shell globbing rules. If .Ar data is an empty string or .Ic nothing then nothing is sent on the connection and data is immediately read. This can be useful with protocols that output a banner like SMTP, NNTP, and FTP. If the .Ic ssl keyword is present, the transaction will occur in an SSL tunnel. .It Ic check ssl Perform a complete SSL handshake with each host to check their availability. .It Ic check tcp Use a simple TCP connect to check that hosts are up. .El .Pp The following general table options are available: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic demote Ar group Enable the per-table .Xr carp 4 demotion option. This will increment the carp demotion counter for the specified interface group if all hosts in the table are down. For more information on interface groups, see the .Ic group keyword in .Xr ifconfig 8 . .It Ic interval Ar number Override the global interval and specify one for this table. It must be a multiple of the global interval. .It Ic timeout Ar number Set the timeout in milliseconds for each host that is checked using TCP as the transport. This will override the global timeout, which is 200 milliseconds by default. .El .Pp The following options will set the scheduling algoritm to select a host from the specified table: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic mode hash Balances the outgoing connections across the active hosts based on the hashed name of the table. Additional input can be fed into the hash by looking at HTTP headers and GET variables; see the .Sx PROTOCOLS section below. This mode is only supported by relays. .It Ic mode loadbalance Balances the outgoing connections across the active hosts based on the hashed name of the table, the source and destination addresses, and the corresponding ports. This mode is only supported by relays. .It Ic mode roundrobin Distributes the outgoing connections using a round-robin scheduler through all active hosts. This is the default mode and will be used if no option has been specified. This mode is supported by redirections and relays. .El .Sh REDIRECTIONS Redirections represent a .Xr pf 4 rdr rule. They are used for stateful redirections to the hosts in the specified tables. .Xr pf 4 rewrites the target IP addresses and ports of the incoming connections, operating on layer 3. The configuration directives that are valid in the .Ic redirect context are described below: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic disable The redirection is initially disabled. It can be later enabled through .Xr relayctl 8 . .It Xo .Ic forward to .Aq Ar table .Op Ic port Ar number .Ar options ... .Xc Specify the tables of target hosts to be used; see the .Sx TABLES section above for information about table options. If the .Ic port option is not specified, the port from the .Ic listen on directive will be used. This directive can be specified twice \(en the second entry will be used as the backup table if all hosts in the main table are down. At least one entry for the main table is mandatory. .It Xo .Ic listen on Ar address Ic port Ar port .Op Ic interface Ar name .Xc Specify an .Ar address and a .Ar port to listen on. .Xr pf 4 will redirect incoming connections for the specified target to the hosts in the main or backup table. The rdr rule can be optionally restricted to a given interface name. .It Xo .Ic route to .Aq Ar table .Op Ic port Ar number .Ar options ... .Xc Like the .Ic forward to directive, but directly routes the packets to the target host without modifying the target address. This can be used for .Dq direct server return to force the target host to respond via a different gateway. Note that hosts have to accept sessions for the same address as the gateway, which is typically done by configuring a loopback interface on the host with this address. .It Ic session timeout Ar seconds Specify the inactivity timeout in seconds for established redirections. The default timeout is 600 seconds (10 minutes). .It Ic sticky-address This has the same effect as specifying sticky-address for an rdr rule in .Xr pf.conf 5 . It will ensure that multiple connections from the same source are mapped to the same redirection address. .It Ic tag Ar name Automatically tag packets passing through the .Xr pf 4 rdr rule with the name supplied. This allows simpler filter rules. .El .Sh RELAYS Relays will forward traffic between a client and a target server. In contrast to redirections and IP forwarding in the network stack, a relay will accept incoming connections from remote clients as a server, open an outgoing connection to a target host, and forward any traffic between the target host and the remote client, operating on layer 7. A relay is also called an application layer gateway or layer 7 proxy. .Pp The main purpose of a relay is to provide advanced load balancing functionality based on specified protocol characteristics, such as HTTP headers, to provide SSL acceleration and to allow basic handling of the underlying application protocol. .Pp The .Ic relay configuration directives are described below: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic disable Start the relay but immediately close any accepted connections. .It Xo .Op Ic transparent .Ic forward to .Ar address .Op Ic port Ar port .Op Ic retry Ar number .Xc Specify the address and port of the target host to connect to. If the .Ic port option is not specified, the port from the .Ic listen on directive will be used. .Pp Use the .Ic transparent keyword to enable fully-transparent mode; the source address of the client will be retained in this case. .Pp The optional host retry option will be used as a tolerance for failed host connections; the connection will be retried for .Ar number more times. .It Xo .Ic forward to .Aq Ar table .Op Ic port Ar port .Ar options ... .Xc Like the previous directive, but connect to a host from the specified table; see the .Sx TABLES section above for information about table options. .It Xo .Ic forward to .Ic nat lookup .Op Ic retry Ar number .Xc When redirecting connections with an .Ar rdr rule in .Xr pf.conf 5 to a relay listening on localhost, this directive will look up the real destination address of the intended target host, allowing the relay to be run as a transparent proxy. If an additional .Ic forward to directive to a specified address or table is present, it will be used as a backup if the NAT lookup failed. .It Xo .Ic listen on Ar address .Op Ic port Ar port .Op Ic ssl .Xc Specify the address and port for the relay to listen on. The relay will accept incoming connections to the specified address. If the .Ic port option is not specified, the port from the .Ic listen on directive will be used. .Pp If the .Ic ssl keyword is present, the relay will accept connections using the encrypted SSL protocol. The relay will look up a private key in .Pa /etc/ssl/private/address.key and a public certificate in .Pa /etc/ssl/address.crt , where .Ar address is the specified IP address of the relay to listen on. See .Xr ssl 8 for details about SSL server certificates. .It Ic protocol Ar name Use the specified protocol definition for the relay. The generic TCP protocol options will be used by default; see the .Sx PROTOCOLS section below. .It Ic session timeout Ar seconds Specify the inactivity timeout in seconds for accepted sessions. The default timeout is 600 seconds (10 minutes). .El .Sh PROTOCOLS Protocols are templates defining actions and settings for relays. They allow setting generic TCP options, SSL settings, and actions specific to the selected application layer protocol. .Pp The protocol directive is available for a number of different application layer protocols. There is no generic handler for UDP-based protocols because it is a stateless datagram-based protocol which has to look into the application layer protocol to find any possible state information. .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic dns protocol (UDP) Domain Name System (DNS) protocol. The requested IDs in the DNS header will be used to match the state. .Xr relayd 8 replaces these IDs with random values to compensate for predictable values generated by some hosts. .It Ic http protocol Handle the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP, or "HTTPS" if encapsulated in an SSL tunnel). .It Xo .Op Ic tcp .Ic protocol .Xc Generic handler for TCP-based protocols. This is the default. .El .Pp The available configuration directives are described below: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Xo .Op Ar direction .Op Ar type .Ar action .Op Ic marked Ar id .Op Ic log .Xc Define an action for the selected entity. The optional .Ic log keyword will log the entity name and the value and the optional .Ic marked keyword requires that the session has been marked with a given identifier in order to execute the action. The actions are dependent on the underlying application .Ic protocol . .El .Pp .Bq Ar direction may be one of: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic request Handle the data stream from the client to the relay, like HTTP requests. This is the default if the .Ar direction directive is omitted. .It Ic response Handle the data stream from the target host to the relay, like HTTP server replies. .El .Pp .Bq Ar action may be one of: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic cookie Look up the entity as a value in the Cookie header when using the .Ic http protocol. This type is only available with the direction .Ic request . .It Ic header Look up the entity in the application protocol headers, like HTTP headers in .Ic http mode. .It Ic path Look up the entity as a value in the URL path when using the .Ic http protocol. This type is only available with the direction .Ic request . The .Ar key will match the path of the requested URL without the hostname and query and the value will match the complete query, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent request path filter "/index.html" request path filter "foo=bar*" from "/cgi-bin/t.cgi" .Ed .It Ic query Look up the entity as a query variable in the URL when using the .Ic http protocol. This type is only available with the direction .Ic request , for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent # Will match /cgi-bin/example.pl?foo=bar&ok=yes request query expect "bar" from "foo" .Ed .It Ic url Look up the entity as a URL suffix/prefix expression consisting of a canonicalized hostname without port or suffix and a path name or prefix when using the .Ic http protocol. This type is only available with the direction .Ic request , for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent request url filter "example.com/index.html" request url filter "example.com/test.cgi?val=1" .Ed .Pp .Xr relayd 8 will match the full URL and different possible suffix/prefix combinations by stripping subdomains and path components (up to 5 levels), and the query string. For example, the following lookups will be done for .Ar http://www.example.com:81/1/2/3/4/5.html?query=yes : .Bd -literal -offset indent www.example.com/1/2/3/4/5.html?query=yes www.example.com/1/2/3/4/5.html www.example.com/ www.example.com/1/ www.example.com/1/2/ www.example.com/1/2/3/ example.com/1/2/3/4/5.html?query=yes example.com/1/2/3/4/5.html example.com/ example.com/1/ example.com/1/2/ example.com/1/2/3/ .Ed .El .Pp .Bq Ar action may be one of: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic append Ar value Ic to Ar key Append the specified value to a protocol entity with the selected name. When using the .Ic http protocol, .Ic key will indicate a specified HTTP header. If .Ar key does not exist in the request, it will be created with the value set to .Ar value . .Pp The .Ar value string may contain predefined macros that will be expanded at runtime: .Pp .Bl -tag -width $SERVER_ADDR -offset indent -compact .It Ic $REMOTE_ADDR The IP address of the connected client. .It Ic $REMOTE_PORT The TCP source port of the connected client. .It Ic $SERVER_ADDR The configured IP address of the relay. .It Ic $SERVER_PORT The configured TCP server port of the relay. .It Ic $TIMEOUT The configured session timeout of the relay. .El .It Ic change Ar key Ic to Ar value Like the .Ic append directive above, but change the contents of the specified entity. If .Ar key does not exist in the request, it will be created with the value set to .Ar value . .Pp The .Ar value string may contain predefined macros that will be expanded at runtime, as detailed for the .Ic append directive above. .It Ic expect Ar value Ic from Ar key Expect an entity .Ar key and match against .Ar value using shell globbing rules. If the entity is not present or the value doesn't match, the connection will be dropped. .It Xo .Ic expect .Op Ic digest .Ar key .Xc Expect an entity .Ar key with any possible value. This is the short form of .Ic expect Ar * Ic from Ar key . .Pp If the .Ic digest keyword is specified, compare the message digest of the entity against the defined string. The algorithm used is determined by the string length of the .Ar key argument, either SHA1 (40 characters) or MD5 (32 characters). To compute the digest, use this simple command: .Bd -literal -offset indent $ echo -n "example.com/path/?args" | sha1 .Ed .It Ic filter Ar value Ic from Ar key Like the .Ic expect Ar .. Ic from directive above, but drop any connections with the specified entity .Ar key and a matching .Ar value . .It Xo .Ic filter .Op Ic digest .Ar key .Xc Like the .Ic expect directive above, but drop any connections with the specified entity .Ar key and any possible value. This is the short form of .Ic filter Ar * Ic from Ar key . .It Ic hash Ar key Feed the value of the selected entity into the load balancing hash to select the target host. See the .Ic table keyword in the .Sx RELAYS section above. .It Ic log Ar key Log the name and the value of the entity. .It Xo .Ic mark .Op Ar value Ic from .Ar key Ic with Ar id .Xc Mark the session with the specified identifier (a positive number between 1 and 65535) if the specified condition matches. Note that the .Ic mark action does not accept the .Ic marked option (see above). .It Ic label Ar string Add a label to subsequently added actions. The label will be printed as part of the error message if the .Ic return error option is set and may contain HTML tags, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent label "\*(Lta href='http://example.com/advisory.pl?id=7359'\*(Gt\e Advisory provided by example.com\*(Lt/a\*(Gt" url filter digest 5c1e03f58f8ce0b457474ffb371fd1ef url filter digest 80c1a7b8337462093ef8359c57b4d56a no label .Ed .It Ic no label Do not set a label for subsequently added actions; this is the default. .It Ic remove Ar key Remove the entity with the selected name. .It Ic return error Op Ar option Return an error reponse to the client if an internal operation or the forward connection to the client failed. By default, the connection will be silently dropped. The effect of this option depends on the protocol: HTTP will send an error header and page to the client before closing the connection. Additional valid options are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic style Ar string Specify a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to be used for the returned HTTP error pages, for example: .Bd -literal -offset indent body { background: #a00000; color: white; } .Ed .El .It Ic ssl Ar option Set the SSL options and session settings. This is only used if SSL is enabled in the relay. Valid options are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic ciphers Ar string Set the string defining the SSL cipher suite. If not specified, the default value .Ar HIGH:!ADH will be used (strong crypto cipher suites without anonymous DH). See the .Sx CIPHERS section of .Xr openssl 1 for information about SSL cipher suites and preference lists. .It Ic session cache Ar value Set the maximum size of the SSL session cache. If the .Ar value is zero, the default size defined by the SSL library will be used. A positive number will set the maximum size in bytes and the keyword .Ic disable will disable the SSL session cache. .It Xo .Op Ic no .Ic sslv2 .Xc Enable the SSLv2 protocol; disabled by default. .It Xo .Op Ic no .Ic sslv3 .Xc Disable the SSLv3 protocol; enabled by default. .It Xo .Op Ic no .Ic tlsv1 .Xc Disable the TLSv1/SSLv3.1 protocol; enabled by default. .El .It Ic tcp Ar option Enable or disable the specified TCP/IP options; see .Xr tcp 4 and .Xr ip 4 for more information about the options. Valid options are: .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Ic backlog Ar number Set the maximum length the queue of pending connections may grow to. The backlog option is 10 by default and is limited by the .Ic kern.somaxconn .Xr sysctl 8 variable. .It Ic ip minttl Ar number This option for the underlying IP connection may be used to discard packets with a TTL lower than the specified value. This can be used to implement the .Ar Generalized TTL Security Mechanism (GTSM) according to RFC 3682. .It Ic ip ttl Change the default time-to-live value in the IP headers. .It Xo .Op Ic no .Ic nodelay .Xc Enable the TCP NODELAY option for this connection. This is recommended to avoid delays in the relayed data stream, e.g. for SSH connections. .It Xo .Op Ic no .Ic sack .Xc Use selective acknowledgements for this connection. .It Ic socket buffer Ar number Set the socket-level buffer size for input and output for this connection. This will affect the TCP window size. .El .El .Sh FILES .Bl -tag -width "/etc/ssl/private/address.keyXX" -compact .It Pa /etc/relayd.conf .Xr relayd 8 configuration file. .Pp .It Pa /etc/services Service name database. .Pp .It Pa /etc/ssl/address.crt .It Pa /etc/ssl/private/address.key Location of the relay SSL server certificates, where .Ar address is the configured IP address of the relay. .El .Sh EXAMPLES This configuration file would create a service .Dq www which load balances four hosts and falls back to one host containing a .Dq sorry page : .Bd -literal -offset indent www1=front-www1.private.example.com www2=front-www2.private.example.com www3=front-www3.private.example.com www4=front-www4.private.example.com interval 5 table \*(Ltphphosts\*(Gt { $www1, $www2, $www3, $www4 } table \*(Ltsorryhost\*(Gt disable { sorryhost.private.example.com } redirect "www" { listen on www.example.com port 8080 interface trunk0 listen on www6.example.com port 80 interface trunk0 tag REDIRECTED forward to \*(Ltphphosts\*(Gt port 8080 timeout 300 \e check http "/" digest "630aa3c2f..." forward to \*(Ltsorryhost\*(Gt port 8080 timeout 300 check icmp } .Ed .Pp The following configuration would add a relay to forward secure HTTPS connections to a pool of HTTP webservers using the .Ic loadbalance mode (SSL acceleration and layer 7 load balancing). The HTTP protocol definition will add two HTTP headers containing address information of the client and the server, set the .Dq Keep-Alive header value to the configured session timeout, and include the .Dq sessid variable in the hash to calculate the target host: .Bd -literal -offset indent http protocol "http_ssl" { header append "$REMOTE_ADDR" to "X-Forwarded-For" header append "$SERVER_ADDR:$SERVER_PORT" to "X-Forwarded-By" header change "Keep-Alive" to "$TIMEOUT" query hash "sessid" cookie hash "sessid" path filter "*command=*" from "/cgi-bin/index.cgi" ssl { sslv2, ciphers "MEDIUM:HIGH" } } relay "sslaccel" { listen on www.example.com port 443 ssl protocol "http_ssl" forward to \*(Ltphphosts\*(Gt port 8080 mode loadbalance check tcp } .Ed .Pp The second relay example will accept incoming connections to port 2222 and forward them to a remote SSH server. The TCP .Ic nodelay option will allow a .Dq smooth SSH session without delays between keystrokes or displayed output on the terminal: .Bd -literal -offset indent protocol "myssh" { tcp { nodelay, socket buffer 65536 } } relay "sshforward" { listen on www.example.com port 2222 protocol "myssh" forward to shell.example.com port 22 } .Ed .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr relayctl 8 , .Xr relayd 8 , .Xr snmpd 8 , .Xr ssl 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm file format, formerly known as .Ic hoststated.conf , first appeared in .Ox 4.1 . It was renamed to .Nm in .Ox 4.3 . .Sh AUTHORS .An -nosplit The .Xr relayd 8 program was written by .An Pierre-Yves Ritschard Aq pyr@openbsd.org and .An Reyk Floeter Aq reyk@openbsd.org .