commit 24e293c3c6228c0038360471e9bbd4b4b4daed05 Author: teor teor2345@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