commit 6898131b41fe7c2ddf90a74c1793a15c41337940 Author: teor teor@torproject.org Date: Mon Jan 20 16:38:02 2020 +1000
doc: Improve port flags in man page
Explain that: * most flags default to off * flags that default to on are specified
Document PreferIPv6Automap in its "No" form, because it's on by default.
Cleanup after 32637. --- doc/tor.1.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index c84eba56e..5f8435195 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -1703,7 +1703,9 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. If a unix domain socket is used, you may - quote the path using standard C escape sequences. + quote the path using standard C escape sequences. Most flags are off by + default, except where specified. Flags that are on by default can be + disabled by putting "No" before the flag name. (Default: 9050) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address @@ -1802,11 +1804,11 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if **UseDNSCache**;; Tells the client to use any cached DNS answers we have when making requests via this connection. - **PreferIPv6Automap**;; + **NoPreferIPv6Automap**;; When serving a hostname lookup request on this port that should get automapped (according to AutomapHostsOnResolve), if we could return either an IPv4 or an IPv6 answer, prefer - an IPv6 answer. (On by default.) + an IPv4 answer. (Tor prefers IPv6 by default.) **PreferSOCKSNoAuth**;; Ordinarily, when an application offers both "username/password authentication" and "no authentication" to Tor via SOCKS5, Tor