. Since updating iptables rules requires root privileges, there is no way to do that without restarting the application.</p><p>AppSwitch provides a way to redirect application connections without root privilege. As such, an unprivileged application is already able to connect to any host (modulo firewall rules etc.) and the owner of the application should be allowed to change the host address passed by its application via <code>connect(2)</code> without requiring additional privilege.</p><h4 id=socket-delega