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Port Forwarding with xinetd – a flexible solution under Linux

17 March 2025 Johannes Kinzig

Linux Networking

An abstract picture showing computers and servers which are connected. In between is sitting a xinetd process forwarding requests on port 443 to a server running on port 8443 — Title image created by the author using AI image generation tools.

In Linux systems, binding a non-root process to a privileged port (which are ports <1024) is not allowed by default. This can be inconvenient when…