[tor-commits] [tor/master] Move the IP address note in SOCKSport.

nickm at torproject.org nickm at torproject.org
Tue Jul 28 18:38:55 UTC 2015


commit c26e3109e2b3381ef50f3e0d46b66e03c15c90d9
Author: Linus Nordberg <linus at nordberg.se>
Date:   Thu Mar 12 14:58:44 2015 +0100

    Move the IP address note in SOCKSport.
---
 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 a77cb9b..0ab431e 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -961,6 +961,13 @@ 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:
@@ -1001,14 +1008,6 @@ 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.)





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