tsocks' role is to allow non SOCKS aware applications (e.g telnet, ssh, ftp etc) to use SOCKS without any modification. It does this by intercepting the calls that applications make to establish network connections and negotating them through a SOCKS server as necessary. Force DNS queries to use SOCKS server via tcp Allow TSOCKS_CONF_FILE to specify configuration file Allow hostname resolution _for_ SOCKS servers Apply tordns patch which allows transparent TORification of the DNS queries tsocks