network/ttdnsd: Added (The Tor TCP DNS Daemon)

Signed-off-by: dsomero <xgizzmo@slackbuilds.org>

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+ttdnsd accepts DNS requests via UDP and forwards the to a resolving nameserver
+via TCP. The actual requests are really just forwarded so one has complete
+access to the nameserver ttdnsd is talking to. -- It's not a very complicated
+process. If there are no problems with the setup it could go as smoothly as
+connecting to the 'net using a mobile broadband dongle.
+
+ttdnsd only connects to the resolving nameserver after receiving a request via
+UDP. For each connection ttdnsd randomly selects one of the nameservers it
+knows about. The connection will be used for forwarding multiple requests in a
+pipelined fashion and is kept open only until no more requests are received
+via UDP. This pipelining is required to overcome the initial connection
+overhead time which is quite long when using Tor.
+
+To run this service at system startup, edit your rc.local and add this code:
+
+if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.ttdsnd ]; then
+  /etc/rc.d/rc.ttdsnd start
+fi
+
+after the similar code used to start the Tor service. To stop the service add
+this to your rc.local_shutdown:
+
+if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.ttdsnd ]; then
+  /etc/rc.d/rc.ttdsnd stop
+fi
+
+before the Tor shutdown routines. Remember that this package acts like a DNS
+resolver so it listens by default on port 53. If you're going to run another
+DNS server like bind either as a cache to this server or in parallel, remember
+to modify ttdnsd default port or it will not start.
+
+This package requires tor and tsocks.