sods is a socket over dns server that uses the DNS to tunnel data. sods includes a small, portable client (sdt) and ds, a utility to scan for DNS servers that support recursion.
The protocol is interoperable with OzymanDNS (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=OzymanDNS).
Not much.
sods has been built on Ubuntu Linux, Maemo, OpenWRT, Mac OS X and Solaris.
cd sods
./configure
# adjust the Makefile
makecd sdt
./configure
# adjust the Makefile
make# In the sods directory
sudo ./sods -vvvv -d /tmp -L 127.0.0.1:22 a.example.com # if you have an SSH server on localhost
# In the sdt directory
ssh -o ProxyCommand="./sdt -r 127.0.0.1 sshdns.a.example.com" 127.0.0.100
# As a TCP proxy
./sdt p 23233 -r 127.0.0.1 sshdns.a.example.com
ssh -p 23233 localhost # for OpenSSHThe sods client works best with GNU screen installed on your shell server (see the scripts directory for an example of a script to reconnect if the connection is dropped).
sods is tiny, easily ported and fast. Well, sort of fast, for a tunnel going over DNS. Which means not really very fast.
sods has a few tricks to get around network limitations.
Some ways to use sods:
use of gated internet access that allow DNS queries, like those found in airports, coffee shops, restaurants and hotels, when you just need quick SSH access
to bypass firewall port or proxy filtering and snooping
penetration testing: bypass strict access controls on outgoing connections on secure networks
have fun with anyone doing traffic analysis on your network usage
use TXT, CNAME or NULL records to encapsulate data
supports multiple forwarded sessions (use multiple "-L" option)
round robin packets between name servers
bounce connections off of public recursive name servers (-r random)
dynamic backoff/throttling of client
client can use be used as a pipe (for OpenSSH) or as a TCP proxy (for other ssh clients)
remove hardcoded options and use define, e.g., nobody/nogroup
multiplex connections to the TCP proxy