Originally Posted by hyc

Almost. You need to redirect traffic *going out to* port 1935, not "coming to". And of course, port 1935 is only a default; any particular server could be configured to use any other port arbitrarily. Moreover, you need the redirect to be done at the kernel level, so that the original destination address is preserved inside the kernel, and can be retrieved by the rtmpsuck program. When you edit the hosts.txt file, you can redirect a hostname to localhost, but the original destination address is lost. And of course, editing hosts.txt doesn't help you if the original RTMP destination was specified as a numeric IP address.