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Vladimir Dubrovin d83a48fe18 Share one listening socket among services on one address
Services of one configuration on the same address, port, network
namespace and device now share one listener and its socket, all
accepting on it, instead of each binding its own: on Linux the second
bind failed unless SO_REUSEPORT was set. A listener keeps a list of the
services accepting on it; the first to start opens the socket under the
listener's open_mutex, as binding may take long, and the others use it
("Accepting connections, shared"). The socket is closed once the last of
them stops.

Such services must be of one type with the same -ol options: otherwise
the configuration is refused ("a service of another type listens
there", "a service with other socket options listens there").

mainclaim() now runs for every service, at startup too: it joins the
listener of its configuration for the address, takes over one of an
older configuration (one of its type first), or makes a new one, under
one hold of listener_mutex so that a listener found is not freed before
it is joined.

Services connecting back (-r) to one place share a pseudo-listener
without a socket, of any type. After a reload a client moves to one of
the newest services of its type on its listener with a slot free: 26 if
there is none of its type, 27 if none has a slot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-15 12:31:50 +03:00

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<h1 align="center">3proxy</h1>
<a href="#NAME">NAME</a><br>
<a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><br>
<a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><br>
<a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><br>
<a href="#SIGNALS">SIGNALS</a><br>
<a href="#FILES">FILES</a><br>
<a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><br>
<a href="#SEE ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><br>
<a href="#AUTHORS">AUTHORS</a><br>
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<h2>NAME
<a name="NAME"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><b>3proxy</b> -
3[APA3A] tiny proxy server, or trivial proxy server, or free
proxy server</p>
<h2>SYNOPSIS
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><b>3proxy</b>
[<i>config_file</i>] <b><br>
3proxy</b> [<i>--install</i>] <b><br>
3proxy</b> [<i>--remove</i>]</p>
<h2>DESCRIPTION
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><b>3proxy</b> is
a universal proxy server. It can be used to provide internal
users with fully controllable access to external resources
or to provide external users with access to internal
resources. 3proxy is not developed to replace
<b>squid</b>(8), but it can extend the functionality of an
existing caching proxy. It can be used to route requests
between different types of clients and proxy servers. Think
about it as application level gateway with configuration
like hardware router has for network layer. It can establish
multiple gateways with HTTP and HTTPS proxy with FTP over
HTTP support, SOCKS v4, v4.5 and v5, POP3 proxy, UDP and TCP
portmappers. Each gateway is started from the configuration
file like an independent service <b>proxy</b>(8)
<b>socks</b>(8) <b>pop3p</b>(8) <b>imapp</b>(8)
<b>tcppm</b>(8) <b>udppm</b>(8) <b>ftppr</b>(8) <b>dnspr</b>
but <b>3proxy</b> is not a kind of wrapper or superserver
for these daemons. It just has the same code compiled in,
but provides much more functionality. SOCKSv5 implementation
allows you to use 3proxy with any UDP or TCP based client
applications designed without proxy support (with
<i>SocksCAP</i>, <i>FreeCAP</i> or another client-side
redirector under Windows or with a socksification library
under Unix). So you can play your favourite games, listen to
music, exchange files and messages and even accept incoming
connections behind a proxy server.</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><i>dnspr</i>
does not exist as an independent service. It&rsquo;s a DNS
caching proxy (it requires <i>nscache</i> and <i>nserver</i>
to be set in the configuration. Only A-records are cached.
Please note that this caching is mostly a &rsquo;hack&rsquo;
and has nothing to do with a real DNS server, but it works
perfectly for SOHO networks.</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">3proxy supports
access control lists (ACL) like network router. Source and
destination networks and destination port can be specified.
In addition, usernames and gateway action (for example GET
or POST) can be used in ACLs. In order to filter request on
username basis user must be authenticated somehow. There are
few authentication types including password authentication
and authentication by NetBIOS name for Windows clients
(it&acute;s very like ident authentication). Depending on
ACL action request can be allowed, denied or redirected to
another host or to another proxy server or even to a chain
of proxy servers.</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">It supports
different types of logging: to logfiles, <b>syslog</b>(3)
(only under Unix) or to an ODBC database. Logging format is
tunable to provide compatibility with existing log file
parsers. It makes it possible to use 3proxy with IIS, ISA,
Apache or Squid log parsers.</p>
<h2>OPTIONS
<a name="OPTIONS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><b>config_file</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">Name of config file. See
<b>3proxy.cfg</b>(3) for configuration file format. Under
Windows, if config_file is not specified, <b>3proxy</b>
looks for a file named <i>3proxy.cfg</i> in the default
location (in the same directory as the executable file and
in the current directory). Under Unix, if no config file is
specified, 3proxy reads configuration from stdin. It makes
it possible to use the 3proxy.cfg file as an executable
script just by setting +x mode and adding <br>
#!/usr/local/3proxy/3proxy <br>
as a first line in 3proxy.cfg</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%;"><b>--install</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">(Windows NT family only)
install <b>3proxy</b> as a system service</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%;"><b>--remove</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">(Windows NT family only) remove
<b>3proxy</b> from system services</p>
<h2>SIGNALS
<a name="SIGNALS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">Under Unix there
are a few signals <b>3proxy</b> catches. See <b>kill</b>(1).
<b><br>
SIGTERM</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">clean up connections and
exit</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%;"><b>SIGPAUSE</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">stop accepting new connections,
on second signal - start and re-read configuration</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%;"><b>SIGCONT</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">start to accept new
connections</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%;"><b>SIGUSR1</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;">reload configuration. The file is read whole before anything changes: if
it has an error, the configuration in force stays as it is, its services
running. Otherwise the new services start and the old ones stop accepting
within a second; connections already open finish under the old
configuration. A new service listening on the same address and port, in
the same network namespace and on the same device, takes over the old
service's TCP or UDP socket, so no connection is refused or lost
meanwhile, and UDP sessions go on through it. Services of one
configuration on one address share its socket, all accepting on it; they
must be of the same type with the same <b>-ol</b> options, or the
configuration is refused. Of the <b>-ol</b> options only those acting when the socket is
bound must be the same (SO_REUSEADDR, SO_REUSEPORT, SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE,
IP_TRANSPARENT, TCP_FASTOPEN); the others are set on the socket taken over,
those no longer given turned off. Otherwise the old service closes its
socket and the new one opens another. Connections of the old services are
re-authenticated as clients of the new service on their address, or on the
place a service connecting back (<b>-r</b>) connects to (several
may connect to one place), unless <b>noforce</b> is set;
they are closed if their service was removed or is of another type, or if
none of the new ones of their type has a free slot of its maxconn. Settings left out of
the new file go back to their defaults.</p>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">Under Windows,
if <b>3proxy</b> is installed as a service you can use
standard service management to start, stop, pause and
continue the 3proxy service, for example: <b><br>
net start 3proxy <br>
net stop 3proxy <br>
net pause 3proxy <br>
net continue 3proxy</b></p>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">Web admin
service can also be used to reload configuration. Use wget
to automate this task.</p>
<h2>FILES
<a name="FILES"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em"><i>/usr/local/3proxy/3proxy.cfg
(3proxy.cfg)</i></p>
<p style="margin-left:18%;"><b>3proxy</b> configuration
file</p>
<h2>BUGS
<a name="BUGS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">Report all bugs
to <b>3proxy@3proxy.org</b></p>
<h2>SEE ALSO
<a name="SEE ALSO"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">3proxy.cfg(5),
proxy(8), ftppr(8), socks(8), pop3p(8), imapp(8), tcppm(8),
udppm(8), kill(1), syslogd(8), <br>
https://3proxy.org/</p>
<h2>AUTHORS
<a name="AUTHORS"></a>
</h2>
<p style="margin-left:9%; margin-top: 1em">3proxy is
designed by Vladimir Dubrovin &lt;vlad@3proxy.org&gt;</p>
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