Bug#662244: RFA: redir -- Redirect TCP connections

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: normal

I request an adopter for the redir package.

The package description is:
 It can run under inetd or stand alone (in which case it handles
 multiple connections).  It is 8 bit clean, not limited to line
 mode, is small and light. Supports transparency, FTP redirects, http
 proxying, and bandwidth limiting.
 .
 redir is all you need to redirect traffic across firewalls authenticate
 based on an IP address etc. No need for the firewall toolkit. The
 functionality of inetd/tcpd and "redir" will allow you to do everything
 you need without screwy telnet/ftp etc gateways. (I assume you are running
 IP Masquerading of course.)

redir is old software, appears to be abandoned upstream (i tried to
interest the upstream maintainer in providing some fixes several years
ago, but nothing came of it).

Pretty much anything that redir can do can probably be done at least
as well by socat, so i'm not sure that redir adds much of value to the
archive.

I plan to do a last bit of maintenance to bring the package up-to-date
if anyone wants to adopt it, but may end up requesting its removal
from the archive if i get no takers.

Regards,

        --dkg