commit b4926784b92426aeb9a3d0d1c573720ba9308d73 Author: Damian Johnson atagar@torproject.org Date: Sun Nov 6 09:18:11 2016 -0800

Minor doc corrections

Vidalia link no longer worked and trac components are now nested. --- docs/faq.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/faq.rst b/docs/faq.rst index 2e022e6..1b39a9b 100644 --- a/docs/faq.rst +++ b/docs/faq.rst @@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ An important thing to note is that a new circuit does not necessarily mean a new

Tor does not have a method for cycling your IP address. This is on purpose, and done for a couple reasons. The first is that this capability is usually requested for not-so-nice reasons such as ban evasion or SEO. Second, repeated circuit creation puts a very high load on the Tor network, so please don't!

-With all that out of the way, how do you create a new circuit? You can customize the rate at which Tor cycles circuits with the **MaxCircuitDirtiness** option in your `torrc https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#torrc`_. `Vidalia https://www.torproject.org/getinvolved/volunteer.html.en#project-vidalia`_ and `arm https://www.atagar.com/arm/`_ both provide a method to request a new identity, and you can do so programmatically by sending Tor a NEWNYM signal. +With all that out of the way, how do you create a new circuit? You can customize the rate at which Tor cycles circuits with the **MaxCircuitDirtiness** option in your `torrc https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en#torrc`_. `Vidalia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia_%28software%29`_ and `arm https://www.atagar.com/arm/`_ both provide a method to request a new identity, and you can do so programmatically by sending Tor a NEWNYM signal.

To do this with telnet...

@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ To start hacking on Stem please do the following and don't hesitate to let me know if you get stuck or would like to discuss anything!

#. Clone our `git http://git-scm.com/`_ repository: **git clone https://git.torproject.org/stem.git** -#. Get our test depdendencies: **sudo pip install mock pycodestyle pyflakes**. +#. Get our test dependencies: **sudo pip install mock pycodestyle pyflakes**. #. Find a `bug or feature https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/doc/stem/bugs`_ that sounds interesting. #. When you have something that you would like to contribute back do the following...

@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ know if you get stuck or would like to discuss anything! * Description: longer description and a link to your repository with either the git commits or branch that has your change * Type: 'defect' if this is a bug fix and 'enhancement' otherwise * Priority: rough guess at the priority of your change - * Component: Stem + * Component: Core Tor / Stem

* I'll review the change and give suggestions. When we're both happy with it I'll push your change to the official repository.