Using socat, how do you send data to a public DNS server through UDP and receive the reply into a file or pipe?

The following only sends the data (data is in proper DNS binary format in a file called "query.bin", previously intercepted from dig transmissions):

socat GOPEN:query.bin udp-send:8.8.8.8:53

The following only receives the data:

socat GOPEN:received.bin,append udp-listen:10.0.0.13:53

Except port 53 is wrong in the latter. How do you both send and receive? Must TCP be used instead? If so, how?

I would try dual-address form for the first argument.


Edit: I don't think this will work. socat always shuts down when it hits EOF on the input side, so it won't wait for the response. Maybe you can pipe the data to it somehow and leave the input side open,

Doesn't work, it produces this error:

socat[119273] E GOPEN: wrong number of parameters (3 instead of 1)

Tried this too:

socat -x system:"cat query.bin; tr a a > result.bin" udp-send:8.8.8.8:53
> 2019/05/24 12:44:09.736162 length=50 from=0 to=49
c5 42 01 20 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 01 05 68 65 6c 6c 6f 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 00 01 00 00 29 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 0a 00 08 91 86 b5 9f e1 9f d4 b3
< 2019/05/24 12:44:09.805138 length=102 from=0 to=101
c5 42 81 80 00 01 00 04 00 00 00 01 05 68 65 6c 6c 6f 03 63 6f 6d 00 00 01 00 01 c0 0c 00 01 00 01 00 00 1a 28 00 04 d8 ef 26 15 c0 0c 00 01 00 01 00 00 1a 28 00 04 d8 ef 20 15 c0 0c 00 01 00 01 00 00 1a 28 00 04 d8 ef 22 15 c0 0c 00 01 00 01 00 00 1a 28 00 04 d8 ef 24 15 00 00 29 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

It does send the query, it does receive the result, but how do you store the result in result.bin?

Here's how query.bin was generated. In one terminal:

socat udp-l:53,reuseaddr,fork system:"tee query.bin"

and in another terminal:

dig +notcp hello.com @127.0.0.1

What would be the iptables rules to send everything that comes from 8.8.8.8 to port 1111 so the following can catch it?

socat -x udp-l:1111,reuseaddr,fork system:"tee result.bin"

It's extremely simple in the end:

cat query.bin | socat -x - UDP:8.8.8.8:53 > result.bin