I think that the 'rinetd' package wil do this. Alternatively, you can write a daemon yourself to do it; something like the following, plugged into a normal inetd.conf, will do the trick. Note that nc is a seperate package, I think that the 'socket' program is similar but haven't used it. --cut #!/bin/sh #just open a connecton to the real server #my stdin/stdout represent the client (using inetd) /usr/bin/nc real-server-host port --cut Carl