NAME

calico —

dispatches cat

SYNOPSIS

calico [-H host] [-P port] [-t timeout] directory

DESCRIPTION

The calico daemon dispatches incoming TLS connections to instances of pounce(1) by Server Name Indication (SNI). Instances of pounce(1) should be configured with -U to bind to UNIX-domain sockets in the directory passed to calico.

Note that calico is not a proxy. Incoming connections are passed directly to instances of pounce(1), which handle TLS negotiation. Instances of pounce(1) and calico can be restarted independently of each other.

The arguments are as follows:

-H host: Bind to host. The default host is localhost.
-P port: Bind to port. The default port is 6697.
-t timeout: Set the timeout in milliseconds after which a connection will be closed if it has not sent the ClientHello message. The default timeout is 1000 milliseconds.
directory: The path to the directory containing pounce(1) UNIX-domain sockets.

EXAMPLES

Obtain certificates for and dispatch to two instances of pounce(1):

certbot certonly -d oftc.example.org
certbot certonly -d freenode.example.org
pounce -U /var/run/calico -H oftc.example.org oftc.conf
pounce -U /var/run/calico -H freenode.example.org freenode.conf
calico -H example.org /var/run/calico

The two instances can be connected to via oftc.example.org:6697 and freenode.example.org:6697, respectively.

STANDARDS

D. Eastlake 3rd, Transport Layer Security (TLS) Extensions: Extension Definitions, IETF, RFC 6066, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6066, Huawei, January 2011.
E. Rescorla, The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3, IETF, RFC 8446, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8446, August 2018.

AUTHORS

June Bug <june@causal.agency>

BUGS

Send mail to <list+pounce@causal.agency> or join #ascii.town on chat.freenode.net.

August 27, 2020

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