[tor-dev] Idle connections in netstat

Damian Johnson atagar at torproject.org
Thu Dec 20 02:21:32 UTC 2012


> I also have had success in using the following:
> ControlListenAddress 127.0.0.1:9051
> Which binds the control port to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) and is thus not
> visible to the outside world.
> (Including the people on the internet port scan you just for running a Tor
> node.)

Or set 'ControlPort 9051' - binding to localhost is the default. This
is all discussed in the README...
https://gitweb.torproject.org/arm.git/blob/HEAD:/README

Patches welcome if you have improvements for it. -Damian


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