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author | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-01-20 16:38:02 +1000 |
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committer | teor <teor@torproject.org> | 2020-01-20 16:38:02 +1000 |
commit | 6898131b41fe7c2ddf90a74c1793a15c41337940 (patch) | |
tree | 1225009eaac13e56ce440242990bafee040cb317 | |
parent | bf2a399fc0d90df76e091fa3259f7c1b8fb87781 (diff) | |
download | tor-6898131b41fe7c2ddf90a74c1793a15c41337940.tar.gz tor-6898131b41fe7c2ddf90a74c1793a15c41337940.zip |
doc: Improve port flags in man page
Explain that:
* most flags default to off
* flags that default to on are specified
Document PreferIPv6Automap in its "No" form, because it's on by
default.
Cleanup after 32637.
-rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.1.txt | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index c84eba56e8..5f84351959 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -1703,7 +1703,9 @@ 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. If a unix domain socket is used, you may - quote the path using standard C escape sequences. + quote the path using standard C escape sequences. Most flags are off by + default, except where specified. Flags that are on by default can be + disabled by putting "No" before the flag name. (Default: 9050) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address @@ -1802,11 +1804,11 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if **UseDNSCache**;; Tells the client to use any cached DNS answers we have when making requests via this connection. - **PreferIPv6Automap**;; + **NoPreferIPv6Automap**;; When serving a hostname lookup request on this port that should get automapped (according to AutomapHostsOnResolve), if we could return either an IPv4 or an IPv6 answer, prefer - an IPv6 answer. (On by default.) + an IPv4 answer. (Tor prefers IPv6 by default.) **PreferSOCKSNoAuth**;; Ordinarily, when an application offers both "username/password authentication" and "no authentication" to Tor via SOCKS5, Tor |