# \[Nix@NGI\] SocksTrace packaged for NGI Forge

**URL:** https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-sockstrace-packaged-for-ngi-forge/78216
**Category:** NGI Zero
**Created:** [June 11, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-sockstrace-packaged-for-ngi-forge/78216 "2026-06-11T12:44:59Z")
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### Author: ![imincik](https://discourse.nixos.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/i/6de8d8/32.png) [@imincik](https://discourse.nixos.org/u/imincik)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2026, 12:44pm UTC](https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-ngi-sockstrace-packaged-for-ngi-forge/78216/1 "2026-06-11T12:44:59Z")

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[**SocksTrace**](https://github.com/namecoin/sockstrace) is a ptrace-based proxy leak detector that identifies network connections bypassing configured proxies.

### Try it out

Visit the [application page](https://ngi.nixos.org/app/sockstrace), launch SocksTrace in a shell environment and follow the usage instructions.

### Links

- Project Details
  - [Source Repository](https://github.com/namecoin/sockstrace)

- [NGI Forge Tracking Issue](https://github.com/ngi-nix/projects/issues/800)

### Share your feedback

We’d like to hear from you, so please leave your feedback using this [short survey](https://nixos-foundation.notion.site/35759d49e1be81edb478e3aade9f8e95?pvs=105).

Alternatively, you can join the:

- [office hours on Jitsi](https://jitsi.lassul.us/ngi-nix-office-hours) every [Tuesday and Thursday from 15:00–16:00 CET/CEST](https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=b9o52fobqjak8oq8lfkhg3t0qg@group.calendar.google.com)
- [NGIpkgs Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#ngipkgs:matrix.org)

for any further comments or questions.

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This work has been done by @alikhere as part of the [Nix@NGI packaging effort](https://nixos.org/community/teams/ngi), funded by [NLnet](https://nlnet.nl) under the NGI0 Core grant(s).