commit 24e293c3c6228c0038360471e9bbd4b4b4daed05
Author: teor <teor2345(a)gmail.com>
Date: Wed Nov 30 11:18:38 2016 +1100
Man page update and changes file for 20667
---
changes/bug20667 | 5 +++++
doc/tor.1.txt | 12 +++++++-----
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/changes/bug20667 b/changes/bug20667
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..93b293a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug20667
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+ o Minor bugfixes (directory downloads):
+ - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority certificates
+ when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of whether tor is a
+ directory cache or not.
+ Fixes bug 20667; bugfix on all recent tor versions.
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index 670c75d..aa3859e 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -504,11 +504,13 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS
(Default: 1)
[[FetchUselessDescriptors]] **FetchUselessDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
- If set to 1, Tor will fetch every non-obsolete descriptor from the
- authorities that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
- descriptors, for example for routers that are not running. This option is
- useful if you're using the contributed "exitlist" script to enumerate Tor
- nodes that exit to certain addresses. (Default: 0)
+ If set to 1, Tor will fetch every consensus flavor, descriptor, and
+ certificate that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
+ descriptors: flavors that it is not using to build circuits, and authority
+ certificates it does not trust. This option is useful if you're using a
+ tor client with an external parser that uses a full consensus.
+ This option fetches all documents, **DirCache** fetches and serves
+ all documents. (Default: 0)
[[HTTPProxy]] **HTTPProxy** __host__[:__port__]::
Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80