[tor-bugs] #11043 [Tor]: Improve the "You should enable Extended ORPort" log message.

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Mon Feb 24 14:55:26 UTC 2014


#11043: Improve the "You should enable Extended ORPort" log message.
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 Reporter:  asn                |          Owner:
     Type:  task               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor                |        Version:
 Keywords:  tor-bridge tor-pt  |  Actual Points:
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 As can be seen in
 https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-
 relays/2014-February/003908.html
 people get confused about the new "You should enable Extended ORPort" log
 message.

 This is kind of related to #10957 , but in this ticket we should figure
 out a better log message for the short term.

 We currently log:
 {{{We are a bridge with a pluggable transport
 proxy but the Extended ORPort is disabled. The Extended ORPort helps Tor
 communicate with the pluggable transport proxy. Please enable it using
 the ExtORPort torrc option.}}}

 we should at least mention that users can simply put `ExtORPort auto` in
 their torrc to fix this issue. And maybe we should include a link to
 further documentation about ExtORPort on the Internet.

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