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author | David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org> | 2021-03-10 10:06:44 -0500 |
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committer | David Goulet <dgoulet@torproject.org> | 2021-03-10 10:06:44 -0500 |
commit | d382f26914590623954ad2f20f1cc06a3733e6a8 (patch) | |
tree | 8c11fddfd64076769325a515c35a853a58fb6f4a | |
parent | 690c7be2537dc30be2d1f4978af7df77c46c2782 (diff) | |
parent | b599f489ae3a1ec8e4f0742243c41dc15f040930 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'tor-gitlab/mr/331' into maint-0.4.5
-rw-r--r-- | changes/bug40256_045 | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/man/tor.1.txt | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug40256_045 b/changes/bug40256_045 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..14e67659e0 --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug40256_045 @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ + o Minor bugfixes (documentation): + - Fix a formatting error on the documentation for + VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. diff --git a/doc/man/tor.1.txt b/doc/man/tor.1.txt index 58774e555f..b57c6ec70a 100644 --- a/doc/man/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/man/tor.1.txt @@ -1797,8 +1797,9 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if The default **VirtualAddrNetwork** address ranges on a properly configured machine will route to the loopback or link-local interface. The maximum number of bits for the network prefix is set to 104 - for IPv6 and 16 for IPv4. However, a wider network - smaller prefix length - - is preferable since it reduces the chances for an attacker to guess the + for IPv6 and 16 for IPv4. However, a larger network + (that is, one with a smaller prefix length) + is preferable, since it reduces the chances for an attacker to guess the used IP. For local use, no change to the default VirtualAddrNetwork setting is needed. |