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iodine

IPv4 over DNS tunnel solution, enabling you to start up a socks5 proxy

Reverse Proxy & Gateways ★ 8k stars Medium setup ISC

IPv4 over DNS tunnel solution, enabling you to start up a socks5 proxy listener.

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Strengths

  • Released under the ISC license
  • Mature project with 8k GitHub stars
  • Written in C
  • Lightweight — runs in 512 MB RAM

Is iodine secure?

OSV.dev has no published security advisories for iodine's repository. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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