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Move the IP address note in SOCKSport.

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Linus Nordberg 2015-03-12 14:58:44 +01:00
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@ -960,6 +960,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for
you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind
to multiple addresses/ports. (Default: 9050) +
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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. +
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The _isolation flags_ arguments give Tor rules for which streams
received on this SOCKSPort are allowed to share circuits with one
@ -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.) +
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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. +
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**CacheIPv4DNS**;;
Tells the client to remember IPv4 DNS answers we receive from exit
nodes via this connection. (On by default.)