commit 504d4aa8c61c172f2b73bcee00cb3cfb0e6fff07 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Fri Dec 7 12:42:02 2012 -0500
Expand the manpage to say: watch out for nonlocal socks
This clears up the remaining issue stopping me from closing bug 6297. --- doc/tor.1.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 1a7f8d5..d268717 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -914,7 +914,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if IPv6.) **PreferIPv6**;; Tells exits that, if a host has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, - we would prefer to connect to it via IPv6. (IPv4 is the default.) + we would prefer to connect to it via IPv6. (IPv4 is the default.) + ++ + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than + localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. The SOCKS + protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it) unauthenticated, so exposing + it in this way could leak your information to anybody watching your + network, and allow anybody to use your computer as an open proxy.
**SOCKSListenAddress** __IP__[:__PORT__]:: Bind to this address to listen for connections from Socks-speaking