summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/tor.1.in
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2005-12-08 19:58:14 +0000
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2005-12-08 19:58:14 +0000
commit338f23114faf35f9965dd9de6ee08376db905533 (patch)
tree20148b10cb92bc6f51da3b896a463511214935c9 /doc/tor.1.in
parent2d585941b8f95b301803ef57da6d1da9671365c4 (diff)
downloadtor-338f23114faf35f9965dd9de6ee08376db905533.tar.gz
tor-338f23114faf35f9965dd9de6ee08376db905533.zip
Oops. 0.0.0.0/8 and 169.254.0.0/16 are also special.
svn:r5536
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/tor.1.in')
-rw-r--r--doc/tor.1.in11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.in b/doc/tor.1.in
index 6eb658e451..352c0655f8 100644
--- a/doc/tor.1.in
+++ b/doc/tor.1.in
@@ -387,11 +387,12 @@ For example, "reject 127.0.0.1:*,reject 192.168.1.0/24:*,accept *:*" would
reject any traffic destined for localhost and any 192.168.1.* address, but
accept anything else.
-To specify all internal networks (including 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. For example, to allow HTTP
-to 127.0.0.1 and block all other connections to internal networks, you
-can say "accept 127.0.0.1:80,reject private:*". See RFC 3330 for more
+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.
+For example, to allow HTTP to 127.0.0.1 and block all other
+connections to internal networks, you can say "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