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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-03-14 11:26:00 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-03-14 11:26:00 -0400
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Merge branch 'maint-0.3.0' into release-0.3.0
-rw-r--r--changes/bug217205
-rw-r--r--doc/tor.1.txt5
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diff --git a/changes/bug21720 b/changes/bug21720
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+ o Documentation:
+ - Update the description of the directory server options in the manual
+ page, to clarify that DirPort is no longer necessary to be a directory
+ cache. Closes ticket 21720.
+
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt
index de2e2b4a04..1665cfe947 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.txt
+++ b/doc/tor.1.txt
@@ -2121,8 +2121,9 @@ is non-zero):
DIRECTORY SERVER OPTIONS
------------------------
-The following options are useful only for directory servers (that is,
-if DirPort is non-zero):
+The following options are useful only for directory servers. (Relays with
+enough bandwidth automatically become directory servers; see DirCache for
+details.)
[[DirPortFrontPage]] **DirPortFrontPage** __FILENAME__::
When this option is set, it takes an HTML file and publishes it as "/" on