From c26e3109e2b3381ef50f3e0d46b66e03c15c90d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Linus Nordberg Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:58:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] 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 a77cb9b169..0ab431e408 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -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) + + + + 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 @@ -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.)