commit 5be36a46cab7626c52e0c50e55ca73703698e399 Author: Linus Nordberg <linus@nordberg.se> Date: Fri Jul 24 10:11:38 2015 +0200 Move the note about non-localhost SOCKSPort usage up to where it belongs. I think this section slipped downwards when flags where added. --- doc/tor.1.txt | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index ca68628..3a54957 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -963,6 +963,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. (Default: 9050) + + + 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. + + + The _isolation flags_ arguments give Tor rules for which streams received on this SOCKSPort are allowed to share circuits with one another. Recognized isolation flags are: @@ -1003,14 +1010,6 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if **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.) + - + - 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. + - + **CacheIPv4DNS**;; Tells the client to remember IPv4 DNS answers we receive from exit nodes via this connection. (On by default.)