.TH TOR 1 "January 2006" "TOR" .SH NAME tor \- The second-generation onion router .SH SYNOPSIS .B tor [\fIOPTION value\fR]... .SH DESCRIPTION .I tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals the downstream node. .PP Basically \fItor\fR provides a distributed network of servers ("onion routers"). Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc -- around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream. .SH OPTIONS \fB-h, -help\fP Display a short help message and exit. .LP .TP \fB-f \fR\fIFILE\fP FILE contains further "option value" pairs. (Default: @CONFDIR@/torrc) .LP .TP \fB--hash-password\fP Generates a hashed password for control port access. .LP .TP \fB--list-fingerprint\fP Generate your keys and output your nickname and fingerprint. .LP .TP \fB--verify-config\fP Verify the configuration file is valid. .LP .TP \fB--nt-service\fP \fB--service [install|remove|start|stop]\fP Manage the Tor Windows NT/2000/XP service. Current instructions can be found at http://wiki.noreply.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#WinNTService .LP .TP \fB--list-torrc-options\fP List all valid options. .LP .TP \fB--version\fP Display Tor version. .LP .TP Other options can be specified either on the command-line (\fI--option value\fR), or in the configuration file (\fIoption value\fR). Options are case-insensitive. .LP .TP \fBBandwidthRate \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP A token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage on this node to the specified number of bytes per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same value. (Default: 3 MB) .LP .TP \fBBandwidthBurst \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) to the given number of bytes in each direction. (Default: 6 MB) .LP .TP \fBMaxAdvertisedBandwidth \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth for our BandwidthRate. Server operators who want to reduce the number of clients who ask to build circuits through them (since this is proportional to advertised bandwidth rate) can thus reduce the CPU demands on their server without impacting network performance. .LP .TP \fBRelayBandwidthRate \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP If defined, a separate token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage for _relayed traffic_ on this node to the specified number of bytes per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same value. Relayed traffic is currently defined as answers to directory requests, but that may change. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBRelayBandwidthBurst \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) for _relayed traffic_ to the given number of bytes in each direction. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBConnLimit \fR\fINUM\fP The minimum number of file descriptors that must be available to the Tor process before it will start. Tor will ask the OS for as many file descriptors as the OS will allow (you can find this by "ulimit -H -n"). If this number is less than ConnLimit, then Tor will refuse to start. You probably don't need to adjust this. It has no effect on Windows since that platform lacks getrlimit(). (Default: 1000) .LP .TP \fBControlPort \fR\fIPort\fP If set, Tor will accept connections on this port and allow those connections to control the Tor process using the Tor Control Protocol (described in control-spec.txt). Note: unless you also specify one of \fBHashedControlPassword\fP or \fBCookieAuthentication\fP, setting this option will cause Tor to allow any process on the local host to control it. This option is required for many Tor controllers; most use the value of 9051. .LP .TP \fBControlListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind the controller listener to this address. If you specify a port, bind to this port rather than the one specified in ControlPort. We strongly recommend that you leave this alone unless you know what you're doing, since giving attackers access to your control listener is really dangerous. (Default: 127.0.0.1) This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. .LP .TP \fBHashedControlPassword \fR\fIhashed_password\fP Don't allow any connections on the control port except when the other process knows the password whose one-way hash is \fIhashed_password\fP. You can compute the hash of a password by running "tor --hash-password \fIpassword\fP". .LP .TP \fBCookieAuthentication \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP If this option is set to 1, don't allow any connections on the control port except when the connecting process knows the contents of a file named "control_auth_cookie", which Tor will create in its data directory. This authentication methods should only be used on systems with good filesystem security. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBDataDirectory \fR\fIDIR\fP Store working data in DIR (Default: @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor) .LP .TP \fBDirServer \fR[\fInickname\fR] [\fBflags\fR] \fIaddress\fR\fB:\fIport fingerprint\fP Use a nonstandard authoritative directory server at the provided address and port, with the specified key fingerprint. This option can be repeated many times, for multiple authoritative directory servers. Flags are separated by spaces, and determine what kind of an authority this directory is. By default, every authority is authoritative for current ("v2")-style directories, unless the "no-v2" flag is given. If the "v1" flags is provided, Tor will use this server as an authority for old-style (v1) directories as well. (Only directory mirrors care about this.) Tor will use this server as an authority for hidden service information if the "hs" flag is set, or if the "v1" flag is set and the "no-hs" flag is \fBnot\fP set. Tor will use this authority as a bridge authoritative directory if the "bridge" flag is set. Lastly, if a flag "orport=\fBport\fR" is given, Tor will use the given port when opening encrypted tunnels to the dirserver. If no \fBdirserver\fP line is given, Tor will use the default directory servers. NOTE: this option is intended for setting up a private Tor network with its own directory authorities. If you use it, you will be distinguishable from other users, because you won't believe the same authorities they do. .LP .TP \fBFetchHidServDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any hidden service descriptors from the rendezvous directories. This option is only useful if you're using a Tor controller that handles hidserv fetches for you. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBFetchServerDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any network status summaries or server descriptors from the directory servers. This option is only useful if you're using a Tor controller that handles directory fetches for you. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBFetchUselessDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 1, Tor will fetch every non-obsolete descriptor from the authorities that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless descriptors, for example for routers that are not running. This option is useful if you're using the contributed "exitlist" script to enumerate Tor nodes that exit to certain addresses. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBGroup \fR\fIGID\fP On startup, setgid to this group. .LP .TP \fBHttpProxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80 if port is not specified), rather than connecting directly to any directory servers. .LP .TP \fBHttpProxyAuthenticator\fR \fIusername:password\fP If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic Http proxy authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of Http proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a patch if you want it to support others. .LP .TP \fBHttpsProxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP Tor will make all its OR (SSL) connections through this host:port (or host:443 if port is not specified), via HTTP CONNECT rather than connecting directly to servers. You may want to set \fBFascistFirewall\fR to restrict the set of ports you might try to connect to, if your Https proxy only allows connecting to certain ports. .LP .TP \fBHttpsProxyAuthenticator\fR \fIusername:password\fP If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic Https proxy authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of Https proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a patch if you want it to support others. .LP .TP \fBKeepalivePeriod \fR\fINUM\fP To keep firewalls from expiring connections, send a padding keepalive cell every NUM seconds on open connections that are in use. If the connection has no open circuits, it will instead be closed after NUM seconds of idleness. (Default: 5 minutes) .LP .TP \fBLog \fR\fIminSeverity\fR[-\fImaxSeverity\fR] \fBstderr\fR|\fBstdout\fR|\fBsyslog\fR\fP Send all messages between \fIminSeverity\fR and \fImaxSeverity\fR to the standard output stream, the standard error stream, or to the system log. (The "syslog" value is only supported on Unix.) Recognized severity levels are debug, info, notice, warn, and err. We advise using "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose may provide sensitive information to an attacker who obtains the logs. If only one severity level is given, all messages of that level or higher will be sent to the listed destination. .LP .TP \fBLog \fR\fIminSeverity\fR[-\fImaxSeverity\fR] \fBfile\fR \fIFILENAME\fP As above, but send log messages to the listed filename. The "Log" option may appear more than once in a configuration file. Messages are sent to all the logs that match their severity level. .LP .TP \fBOutboundBindAddress \fR\fIIP\fP Make all outbound connections originate from the IP address specified. This is only useful when you have multiple network interfaces, and you want all of Tor's outgoing connections to use a single one. .LP .TP \fBPidFile \fR\fIFILE\fP On startup, write our PID to FILE. On clean shutdown, remove FILE. .LP .TP \fBProtocolWarnings \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor will log with severity 'warn' various cases of other parties not following the Tor specification. Otherwise, they are logged with severity 'info'. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBRunAsDaemon \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor forks and daemonizes to the background. This option has no effect on Windows; instead you should use the --service command-line option. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBSafeLogging \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP If 1, Tor replaces potentially sensitive strings in the logs (e.g. addresses) with the string [scrubbed]. This way logs can still be useful, but they don't leave behind personally identifying information about what sites a user might have visited. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBUser \fR\fIUID\fP On startup, setuid to this user. .LP .TP \fBHardwareAccel \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP If non-zero, try to use crypto hardware acceleration when available. This is untested and probably buggy. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBAvoidDiskWrites \fR\fB0|\fR\fB1\fP If non-zero, try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise. This is useful when running on flash memory or other media that support only a limited number of writes. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBTunnelDirConns \fR\fB0|\fR\fB1\fP If non-zero, when a directory server we contact supports it, we will build a one-hop circuit and make an encrypted connection via its ORPort. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBPreferTunneledDirConns \fR\fB0|\fR\fB1\fP If non-zero, we will avoid directory servers that don't support tunneled directory connections, when possible. (Default: 0) .SH CLIENT OPTIONS .PP The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if \fBSocksPort\fP is non-zero): .LP .TP \fBAllowInvalidNodes\fR \fBentry\fR|\fBexit\fR|\fBmiddle\fR|\fBintroduction\fR|\fBrendezvous\fR|...\fP If some Tor servers are obviously not working right, the directory authorities can manually mark them as invalid, meaning that it's not recommended you use them for entry or exit positions in your circuits. You can opt to use them in some circuit positions, though. The default is "middle,rendezvous", and other choices are not advised. .LP .TP \fBCircuitBuildTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP Try for at most NUM seconds when building circuits. If the circuit isn't open in that time, give up on it. (Default: 1 minute.) .LP .TP \fBCircuitIdleTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP If we have kept a clean (never used) circuit around for NUM seconds, then close it. This way when the Tor client is entirely idle, it can expire all of its circuits, and then expire its TLS connections. Also, if we end up making a circuit that is not useful for exiting any of the requests we're receiving, it won't forever take up a slot in the circuit list. (Default: 1 hour.) .LP .TP \fBClientOnly \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 1, Tor will under no circumstances run as a server. The default is to run as a client unless ORPort is configured. (Usually, you don't need to set this; Tor is pretty smart at figuring out whether you are reliable and high-bandwidth enough to be a useful server.) (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBExcludeNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of nodes to never use when building a circuit. .LP .TP \fBEntryNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of preferred nodes to use for the first hop in the circuit. These are treated only as preferences unless StrictEntryNodes (see below) is also set. .LP .TP \fBExitNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of preferred nodes to use for the last hop in the circuit. These are treated only as preferences unless StrictExitNodes (see below) is also set. .LP .TP \fBStrictEntryNodes \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor will never use any nodes besides those listed in "EntryNodes" for the first hop of a circuit. .LP .TP \fBStrictExitNodes \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor will never use any nodes besides those listed in "ExitNodes" for the last hop of a circuit. .LP .TP \fBFascistFirewall \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor will only create outgoing connections to ORs running on ports that your firewall allows (defaults to 80 and 443; see \fBFirewallPorts\fR). This will allow you to run Tor as a client behind a firewall with restrictive policies, but will not allow you to run as a server behind such a firewall. This option is deprecated; use ReachableAddresses instead. .LP .TP \fBFirewallPorts \fR\fIPORTS\fP A list of ports that your firewall allows you to connect to. Only used when \fBFascistFirewall\fR is set. This option is deprecated; use ReachableAddresses instead. (Default: 80, 443) .LP .TP \fBReachableAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP A comma-separated list of IP addresses and ports that your firewall allows you to connect to. The format is as for the addresses in ExitPolicy, except that "accept" is understood unless "reject" is explicitly provided. For example, 'ReachableAddresses 99.0.0.0/8, reject 18.0.0.0/8:80, accept *:80' means that your firewall allows connections to everything inside net 99, rejects port 80 connections to net 18, and accepts connections to port 80 otherwise. (Default: 'accept *:*'.) .LP .TP \fBReachableDirAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP Like \fBReachableAddresses\fP, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey these restrictions when fetching directory information, using standard HTTP GET requests. If not set explicitly then the value of \fBReachableAddresses\fP is used. If \fBHttpProxy\fR is set then these connections will go through that proxy. .LP .TP \fBReachableORAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP Like \fBReachableAddresses\fP, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey these restrictions when connecting to Onion Routers, using TLS/SSL. If not set explicitly then the value of \fBReachableAddresses\fP is used. If \fBHttpsProxy\fR is set then these connections will go through that proxy. The separation between \fBReachableORAddresses\fP and \fBReachableDirAddresses\fP is only interesting when you are connecting through proxies (see \fBHttpProxy\fR and \fBHttpsProxy\fR). Most proxies limit TLS connections (which Tor uses to connect to Onion Routers) to port 443, and some limit HTTP GET requests (which Tor uses for fetching directory information) to port 80. .LP .TP \fBLongLivedPorts \fR\fIPORTS\fP A list of ports for services that tend to have long-running connections (e.g. chat and interactive shells). Circuits for streams that use these ports will contain only high-uptime nodes, to reduce the chance that a node will go down before the stream is finished. (Default: 21, 22, 706, 1863, 5050, 5190, 5222, 5223, 6667, 6697, 8300) .LP .TP \fBMapAddress\fR \fIaddress\fR \fInewaddress\fR When a request for address arrives to Tor, it will rewrite it to newaddress before processing it. For example, if you always want connections to www.indymedia.org to exit via \fItorserver\fR (where \fItorserver\fR is the nickname of the server), use "MapAddress www.indymedia.org www.indymedia.org.torserver.exit". .LP .TP \fBNewCircuitPeriod \fR\fINUM\fP Every NUM seconds consider whether to build a new circuit. (Default: 30 seconds) .LP .TP \fBMaxCircuitDirtiness \fR\fINUM\fP Feel free to reuse a circuit that was first used at most NUM seconds ago, but never attach a new stream to a circuit that is too old. (Default: 10 minutes) .LP .TP \fBNodeFamily \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP The named Tor servers constitute a "family" of similar or co-administered servers, so never use any two of them in the same circuit. Defining a NodeFamily is only needed when a server doesn't list the family itself (with MyFamily). This option can be used multiple times. .LP .TP \fBEnforceDistinctSubnets \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If 1, Tor will not put two servers whose IP addresses are "too close" on the same circuit. Currently, two addresses are "too close" if they lie in the same /16 range. (Default: 1) .\" \fBPathlenCoinWeight \fR\fI0.0-1.0\fP .\" Paths are 3 hops plus a geometric distribution centered around this coinweight. .\" Must be >=0.0 and <1.0. (Default: 0.3) NOT USED CURRENTLY .\" .TP .LP .TP \fBRendNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of preferred nodes to use for the rendezvous point, if possible. .LP .TP \fBRendExcludeNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of nodes to never use when choosing a rendezvous point. .LP .TP \fBSocksPort \fR\fIPORT\fP Advertise this port to listen for connections from Socks-speaking applications. Set this to 0 if you don't want to allow application connections. (Default: 9050) .LP .TP \fBSocksListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind to this address to listen for connections from Socks-speaking applications. (Default: 127.0.0.1) You can also specify a port (e.g. 192.168.0.1:9100). This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. .LP .TP \fBSocksPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the Socks ports. The policies have the same form as exit policies below. .LP .TP \fBSocksTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP Let a socks connection wait NUM seconds handshaking, and NUM seconds unattached waiting for an appropriate circuit, before we fail it. (Default: 2 minutes.) .LP .TP \fBTestVia \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP A list of nodes to prefer for your middle hop when building testing circuits. This option is mainly for debugging reachability problems. .LP .TP \fBTrackHostExits \fR\fIhost\fR,\fI.domain\fR,\fI...\fR\fP For each value in the comma separated list, Tor will track recent connections to hosts that match this value and attempt to reuse the same exit node for each. If the value is prepended with a '.', it is treated as matching an entire domain. If one of the values is just a '.', it means match everything. This option is useful if you frequently connect to sites that will expire all your authentication cookies (ie log you out) if your IP address changes. Note that this option does have the disadvantage of making it more clear that a given history is associated with a single user. However, most people who would wish to observe this will observe it through cookies or other protocol-specific means anyhow. .LP .TP \fBTrackHostExitsExpire \fR\fINUM\fP Since exit servers go up and down, it is desirable to expire the association between host and exit server after NUM seconds. The default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes). .LP .TP \fBUseEntryGuards \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If this option is set to 1, we pick a few long-term entry servers, and try to stick with them. This is desirable because constantly changing servers increases the odds that an adversary who owns some servers will observe a fraction of your paths. (Defaults to 1.) .LP .TP \fBNumEntryGuards \fR\fINUM\fP If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers as long-term entries for our circuits. (Defaults to 3.) .LP .TP \fBSafeSocks \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an IP address, meaning the application is doing a DNS resolve first. Specifically, these are socks4 and socks5 when not doing remote DNS. (Defaults to 0.) .LP .TP \fBTestSocks \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is enabled, Tor will make a notice-level log entry for each connection to the Socks port indicating whether the request used a safe socks protocol or an unsafe one (see above entry on SafeSocks). This helps to determine whether an application using Tor is possibly leaking DNS requests. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBVirtualAddrNetwork \fR\fIAddress\fB/\fIbits\fP When a controller asks for a virtual (unused) address with the MAPADDRESS command, Tor picks an unassigned address from this range. (Default: 127.192.0.0/10) When providing proxy server service to a network of computers using a tool like dns-proxy-tor, change this address to "10.192.0.0/10" or "172.16.0.0/12". The default \fBVirtualAddrNetwork\fP address range on a properly configured machine will route to the loopback interface. For local use, no change to the default \fBVirtualAddrNetwork\fP setting is needed. .LP .TP \fBAllowNonRFC953Hostnames \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is disabled, Tor blocks hostnames containing illegal characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an exit node to be resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve URLs and so on. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBFastFirstHopPK \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is enabled and we aren't running as a server, Tor skips the public key step for the first hop of creating circuits. This is safe since we have already used TLS to authenticate the server and to establish forward-secure keys. Turning this option off makes circuit building slower. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBTransPort\fP \fR\fIPORT\fP If non-zero, enables transparent proxy support on \fR\fIPORT\fP (by convention, 9040). .\" This is required to enable support for \fBdns-proxy-tor\fP. .\" ControlPort must be set when using \fBTransPort\fP. Requires OS support for transparent proxies, such as BSDs' pf or Linux's IPTables. If you're planning to use Tor as a transparent proxy for a network, you'll want to examine and change VirtualAddrNetwork from the default setting. You'll also want to set the TransListenAddress option for the network you'd like to proxy. (Default: 0). .LP .TP \fBTransListenAddress\fP \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind to this address to listen for transparent proxy connections. (Default: 127.0.0.1). This is useful for exporting a transparent proxy server to an entire network. .LP .TP \fBNATDPort\fP \fR\fIPORT\fP Allow old versions of ipfw (as included in old versions of FreeBSD, etc.) to send connections through Tor using the NATD protocol. This option is only for people who cannot use TransPort. .LP .TP \fBNATDListenAddress\fP \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind to this address to listen for NATD connections. (Default: 127.0.0.1). .LP .TP .SH SERVER OPTIONS .PP The following options are useful only for servers (that is, if \fBORPort\fP is non-zero): .LP .TP \fBAddress \fR\fIaddress\fP The IP or fqdn of this server (e.g. moria.mit.edu). You can leave this unset, and Tor will guess your IP. .LP .TP \fBAssumeReachable \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP This option is used when bootstrapping a new Tor network. If set to 1, don't do self-reachability testing; just upload your server descriptor immediately. If \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP is also set, this option instructs the dirserver to bypass remote reachability testing too and list all connected servers as running. .LP .TP \fBContactInfo \fR\fIemail_address\fP Administrative contact information for server. This line might get picked up by spam harvesters, so you may want to obscure the fact that it's an email address. .LP .TP \fBExitPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP Set an exit policy for this server. Each policy is of the form "\fBaccept\fP|\fBreject\fP \fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP]\fB[:\fP\fIPORT\fP]". If \fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP is omitted then this policy just applies to the host given. Instead of giving a host or network you can also use "\fB*\fP" to denote the universe (0.0.0.0/0). \fIPORT\fP can be a single port number, an interval of ports "\fIFROM_PORT\fP\fB-\fP\fITO_PORT\fP", or "\fB*\fP". If \fIPORT\fP is omitted, that means "\fB*\fP". For example, "accept 18.7.22.69:*,reject 18.0.0.0/8:*,accept *:*" would reject any traffic destined for MIT except for web.mit.edu, and accept anything else. To specify all internal and link-local networks (including 0.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, and 172.16.0.0/12), you can use the "private" alias instead of an address. These addresses are rejected by default (at the beginning of your exit policy) unless you set the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate config option to 0. For example, once you've done that, you could allow HTTP to 127.0.0.1 and block all other connections to internal networks with "accept 127.0.0.1:80,reject private:*". See RFC 1918 and RFC 3330 for more details about internal and reserved IP address space. This directive can be specified multiple times so you don't have to put it all on one line. Policies are considered first to last, and the first match wins. If you want to _replace_ the default exit policy, end your exit policy with either a reject *:* or an accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_ (prepending to) the default exit policy. The default exit policy is: .PD 0 .RS 12 .IP "reject *:25" .IP "reject *:119" .IP "reject *:135-139" .IP "reject *:445" .IP "reject *:465" .IP "reject *:563" .IP "reject *:587" .IP "reject *:1214" .IP "reject *:4661-4666" .IP "reject *:6346-6429" .IP "reject *:6699" .IP "reject *:6881-6999" .IP "accept *:*" .RE .PD .LP .TP \fBExitPolicyRejectPrivate \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP Reject all private (local) networks at the beginning of your exit policy. See above entry on ExitPolicy. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBMaxOnionsPending \fR\fINUM\fP If you have more than this number of onionskins queued for decrypt, reject new ones. (Default: 100) .LP .TP \fBMyFamily \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP Declare that this Tor server is controlled or administered by a group or organization identical or similar to that of the other named servers. When two servers both declare that they are in the same 'family', Tor clients will not use them in the same circuit. (Each server only needs to list the other servers in its family; it doesn't need to list itself, but it won't hurt.) .LP .TP \fBNickname \fR\fIname\fP Set the server's nickname to 'name'. Nicknames must be between 1 and 19 characters inclusive, and must contain only the characters [a-zA-Z0-9]. .LP .TP \fBNumCPUs \fR\fInum\fP How many processes to use at once for decrypting onionskins. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBORPort \fR\fIPORT\fP Advertise this port to listen for connections from Tor clients and servers. .LP .TP \fBORListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind to this IP address to listen for connections from Tor clients and servers. If you specify a port, bind to this port rather than the one specified in ORPort. (Default: 0.0.0.0) This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. .LP .TP \fBPublishServerDescriptor \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 0, Tor will act as a server if you have an ORPort defined, but it will not publish its descriptor to the dirservers. This option is useful if you're testing out your server, or if you're using a Tor controller that handles directory publishing for you. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBRedirectExit \fR\fIpattern target\fP Whenever an outgoing connection tries to connect to one of a given set of addresses, connect to \fItarget\fP (an \fIaddress:port\fP pair) instead. The address pattern is given in the same format as for an exit policy. The address translation applies after exit policies are applied. Multiple \fBRedirectExit\fP options can be used: once any one has matched successfully, no subsequent rules are considered. You can specify that no redirection is to be performed on a given set of addresses by using the special target string "pass", which prevents subsequent rules from being considered. .LP .TP \fBShutdownWaitLength\fR \fINUM\fP When we get a SIGINT and we're a server, we begin shutting down: we close listeners and start refusing new circuits. After \fBNUM\fP seconds, we exit. If we get a second SIGINT, we exit immediately. (Default: 30 seconds) .LP .TP \fBAccountingMax \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP Never send more than the specified number of bytes in a given accounting period, or receive more than that number in the period. For example, with AccountingMax set to 1 GB, a server could send 900 MB and receive 800 MB and continue running. It will only hibernate once one of the two reaches 1 GB. When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate until some time in the next accounting period. To prevent all servers from waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point in each period before waking up. If you have bandwidth cost issues, enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since it provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some of the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are always "available". .LP .TP \fBAccountingStart \fR\fBday\fR|\fBweek\fR|\fBmonth\fR [\fIday\fR] \fIHH:MM\fR\fP Specify how long accounting periods last. If \fBmonth\fP is given, each accounting period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR on the \fIday\fRth day of one month to the same day and time of the next. (The day must be between 1 and 28.) If \fBweek\fP is given, each accounting period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR of the \fIday\fRth day of one week to the same day and time of the next week, with Monday as day 1 and Sunday as day 7. If \fBday\fR is given, each accounting period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR each day to the same time on the next day. All times are local, and given in 24-hour time. (Defaults to "month 1 0:00".) .LP .TP \fBServerDNSResolvConfFile \fR\fIfilename\fP Overrides the default DNS configuration with the configuration in \fIfilename\fP. The file format is the same as the standard Unix "\fBresolv.conf\fP" file (7). This option, like all other ServerDNS options, only affects name lookup that your server does on behalf of clients. Also, it only takes effect if Tor was built with eventdns support. (Defaults to use the system DNS configuration.) .LP .TP \fBServerDNSSearchDomains \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to \fB1\fP, then we will search for addresses in the local search domain. For example, if this system is configured to believe it is in "example.com", and a client tries to connect to "www", the client will be connected to "www.example.com". This option only affects name lookup that your server does on behalf of clients, and only takes effect if Tor was build with eventdns support. (Defaults to "0".) .LP .TP \fBServerDNSDetectHijacking \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set to 1, we will test periodically to determine whether our local nameservers have been configured to hijack failing DNS requests (usually to an advertising site). If they are, we will attempt to correct this. This option only affects name lookup that your server does on behalf of clients, and only takes effect if Tor was build with eventdns support. (Defaults to "1".) .LP .TP \fBServerDNSTestAddresses \fR\fIaddress\fR,\fIaddress\fR,\fI...\fP When we're detecting DNS hijacking, make sure that these \fIvalid\fP addresses aren't getting redirected. If they are, then our DNS is completely useless, and we'll reset our exit policy to "reject *:*". This option only affects name lookup that your server does on behalf of clients, and only takes effect if Tor was build with eventdns support. (Defaults to "www.google.com, www.mit.edu, www.yahoo.com, www.slashdot.org".) .LP .TP \fBServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Hostnames \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is disabled, Tor does not try to resolve hostnames containing illegal characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an exit node to be resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve URLs and so on. This option only affects name lookup that your server does on behalf of clients, and only takes effect if Tor was build with eventdns support. (Default: 0) .SH DIRECTORY SERVER OPTIONS .PP The following options are useful only for directory servers (that is, if \fBDirPort\fP is non-zero): .LP .TP \fBAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set to 1, Tor operates as an authoritative directory server. Instead of caching the directory, it generates its own list of good servers, signs it, and sends that to the clients. Unless the clients already have you listed as a trusted directory, you probably do not want to set this option. Please coordinate with the other admins at tor-ops@freehaven.net if you think you should be a directory. .LP .TP \fBV1AuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor generates version 1 directory and running-routers documents (for legacy Tor clients up to 0.1.0.x). .LP .TP \fBV2AuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor generates version 2 network statuses and serves descriptors, etc as described in doc/spec/dir-spec.txt. .LP .TP \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set to 1, Tor adds information on which versions of Tor are still believed safe for use to the published directory. Each version 1 authority is automatically a versioning authority; version 2 authorities provide this service optionally. See \fBRecommendedVersions\fP, \fBRecommendedClientVersions\fP, and \fBRecommendedServerVersions\fP. .LP .TP \fBNamingAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set to 1, then the server advertises that it has opinions about nickname-to-fingerprint bindings. It will include these opinions in its published network-status pages, by listing servers with the flag "Named" if a correct binding between that nickname and fingerprint has been registered with the dirserver. Naming dirservers will refuse to accept or publish descriptors that contradict a registered binding. See \fBapproved-routers\fP in the \fBFILES\fP section below. .LP .TP \fBHSAuthoritativeDir \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor also accepts and serves hidden service descriptors. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBHSAuthorityRecordStats \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is set in addition to \fBHSAuthoritativeDir\fP, Tor periodically (every 15 minutes) writes statistics about hidden service usage to a file \fBhsusage\fP in its data directory. (Default: 0) .LP .TP \fBDirPort \fR\fIPORT\fP Advertise the directory service on this port. .LP .TP \fBDirListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP Bind the directory service to this address. If you specify a port, bind to this port rather than the one specified in DirPort. (Default: 0.0.0.0) This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. .LP .TP \fBDirPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the directory ports. The policies have the same form as exit policies above. .LP .TP \fBRecommendedVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be safe. The list is included in each directory, and nodes which pull down the directory learn whether they need to upgrade. This option can appear multiple times: the values from multiple lines are spliced together. When this is set then \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too. .LP .TP \fBRecommendedClientVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be safe for clients to use. This information is included in version 2 directories. If this is not set then the value of \fBRecommendedVersions\fR is used. When this is set then \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too. .LP .TP \fBRecommendedServerVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be safe for servers to use. This information is included in version 2 directories. If this is not set then the value of \fBRecommendedVersions\fR is used. When this is set then \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too. .LP .TP \fBDirAllowPrivateAddresses \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 1, Tor will accept router descriptors with arbitrary "Address" elements. Otherwise, if the address is not an IP or is a private IP, it will reject the router descriptor. Defaults to 0. .LP .TP \fBAuthDirBadExit \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that will be listed as bad exits in any network status document this authority publishes, if \fBAuthDirListBadExits\fR is set. .LP .TP \fBAuthDirInvalid \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that will never be listed as "valid" in any network status document that this authority publishes. .LP .TP \fBAuthDirReject \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that will never be listed at all in any network status document that this authority publishes, or accepted as an OR address in any descriptor submitted for publication by this authority. .LP .TP \fBAuthDirListBadExits \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, this directory has some opinion about which nodes are unsuitable as exit nodes. (Do not set this to 1 unless you plan to list nonfunctioning exits as bad; otherwise, you are effectively voting in favor of every declared exit as an exit.) .LP .TP \fBAuthDirRejectUnlisted \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, the directory server rejects all uploaded server descriptors that aren't explicitly listed in the fingerprints file. This acts as a "panic button" if we get Sybiled. (Default: 0) .SH HIDDEN SERVICE OPTIONS .PP The following options are used to configure a hidden service. .LP .TP \fBHiddenServiceDir \fR\fIDIRECTORY\fP Store data files for a hidden service in DIRECTORY. Every hidden service must have a separate directory. You may use this option multiple times to specify multiple services. .LP .TP \fBHiddenServicePort \fR\fIVIRTPORT \fR[\fITARGET\fR]\fP Configure a virtual port VIRTPORT for a hidden service. You may use this option multiple times; each time applies to the service using the most recent hiddenservicedir. By default, this option maps the virtual port to the same port on 127.0.0.1. You may override the target port, address, or both by specifying a target of addr, port, or addr:port. .LP .TP \fBHiddenServiceNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP If possible, use the specified nodes as introduction points for the hidden service. If this is left unset, Tor will be smart and pick some reasonable ones; most people can leave this unset. .LP .TP \fBHiddenServiceExcludeNodes \fR\fInickname\fR,\fInickname\fR,\fI...\fP Do not use the specified nodes as introduction points for the hidden service. In normal use there is no reason to set this. .LP .TP \fBPublishHidServDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP If set to 0, Tor will run any hidden services you configure, but it won't advertise them to the rendezvous directory. This option is only useful if you're using a Tor controller that handles hidserv publishing for you. (Default: 1) .LP .TP \fBRendPostPeriod \fR\fIN\fR \fBseconds\fR|\fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fR|\fBdays\fR|\fBweeks\fP Every time the specified period elapses, Tor uploads any rendezvous service descriptors to the directory servers. This information is also uploaded whenever it changes. (Default: 20 minutes) .\" UNDOCUMENTED .\" ignoreversion .SH SIGNALS Tor catches the following signals: .LP .TP \fBSIGTERM\fR Tor will catch this, clean up and sync to disk if necessary, and exit. .LP .TP \fBSIGINT\fR Tor clients behave as with SIGTERM; but Tor servers will do a controlled slow shutdown, closing listeners and waiting 30 seconds before exiting. (The delay can be configured with the ShutdownWaitLength config option.) .LP .TP \fBSIGHUP\fR The signal instructs Tor to reload its configuration (including closing and reopening logs), fetch a new directory, and kill and restart its helper processes if applicable. .LP .TP \fBSIGUSR1\fR Log statistics about current connections, past connections, and throughput. .LP .TP \fBSIGUSR2\fR Switch all logs to loglevel debug. You can go back to the old loglevels by sending a SIGHUP. .LP .TP \fBSIGCHLD\fR Tor receives this signal when one of its helper processes has exited, so it can clean up. .LP .TP \fBSIGPIPE\fR Tor catches this signal and ignores it. .LP .TP \fBSIGXFSZ\fR If this signal exists on your platform, Tor catches and ignores it. .SH FILES .LP .TP .B @CONFDIR@/torrc The configuration file, which contains "option value" pairs. .LP .TP .B @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor/ The tor process stores keys and other data here. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/cached-status/* The most recently downloaded network status document for each authority. Each file holds one such document; the filenames are the hexadecimal identity key fingerprints of the directory authorities. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fB/cached-routers\fR and \fBcached-routers.new\fR These files hold downloaded router statuses. Some routers may appear more than once; if so, the most recently published descriptor is used. The ".new" file is an append-only journal; when it gets too large, all entries are merged into a new cached-routers file. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/state A set of persistent key-value mappings. These are documented in the file. These include: .PD 0 .RS 5 .IP "- The current entry guards and their status." .IP "- The current bandwidth accounting values (unused so far; see below)." .IP "- When the file was last written" .IP "- What version of Tor generated the state file" .IP "- A short history of bandwidth usage, as produced in the router descriptors." .RE .PD .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/bw_accounting Used to track bandwidth accounting values (when the current period starts and ends; how much has been read and written so far this period). This file is obsolete, and the data is now stored in the 'state' file as well. Only used when bandwidth accounting is enabled. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/hsusage Used to track hidden service usage in terms of fetch and publish requests to this hidden service authoritative directory. Only used when recording of statistics is enabled. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/control_auth_cookie Used for cookie authentication with the controller. Regenerated on startup. See control-spec.txt for details. Only used when cookie authentication is enabled. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/keys/* Only used by servers. Holds identity keys and onion keys. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/fingerprint Only used by servers. Holds the fingerprint of the server's identity key. .LP .TP .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/approved-routers Only for naming authoritative directory servers (see \fBNamingAuthoritativeDirectory\fP). This file lists nickname to identity bindings. Each line lists a nickname and a fingerprint separated by whitespace. See your \fBfingerprint\fP file in the \fIDataDirectory\fP for an example line. If the nickname is \fB!reject\fP then descriptors from the given identity (fingerprint) are rejected by this server. If it is \fB!invalid\fP then descriptors are accepted but marked in the directory as not valid, that is, not recommended. .LP .TP .B \fIHiddenServiceDirectory\fP/hostname The .onion domain name for this hidden service. .LP .TP .B \fIHiddenServiceDirectory\fP/private_key The private key for this hidden service. .SH SEE ALSO .BR privoxy (1), .BR tsocks (1), .BR torify (1) .BR http://tor.eff.org/ .SH BUGS Plenty, probably. Tor is still in development. Please report them. .SH AUTHORS Roger Dingledine , Nick Mathewson .