Re: NNPS / TCP port 433

On 12/12/21 12:02 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> I /want/ to use SRV records.  But I find them largely useless for things 
> that don't explicitly support them.

As I clicked send, I started to wonder if there might be a way to abuse 
/ overload SOCKS or HTTP(S) CONNECT proxies such that you ask them to 
connect to a _service._protocol.FQDN and they automagically perform the 
SRV resolution /and/ *connection* (proxying) for the proxy client.

Then I realized that there is a fundamental disconnect between the 
application layer protocol that clients are expecting.  E.g. unencrypted 
and encrypted.

Maybe it would be possible to extend the proxy to incorporate something 
akin to stunnel / OpenSSL's s_client to do conversion between 
unencrypted NN{S,T}P and encrypted NN{S,T}PS.  But that's out the 
northbound side between the proxy and the SRV target(s).  I suppose the 
southbound side between the client and the proxy would have it's own 
independent encryption (or not).

Like I said, I /really/ /do/ want to use SRV records.  But ... they just 
aren't conducive to use by things that don't understand them.

I'd love to have _ssh._tcp.<FQDN> plugged into OpenSSH's ProxyCommand. 
But ... alas ....



-- 
Grant. . . .
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