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| author | Paolo Inglese <paolo.ingls@gmail.com> | 2016-10-03 12:18:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Inglese <paolo.ingls@gmail.com> | 2016-10-03 12:18:51 +0100 |
| commit | ae4077916c94e9c15fa2800f51409ccb116bf63f (patch) | |
| tree | fc2cfe29aa6db68d711e8447ee582fb2a048e5da /doc | |
| parent | 14a604721091d3995c9905efe52e9f2fb789afaa (diff) | |
| download | tor-ae4077916c94e9c15fa2800f51409ccb116bf63f.tar.gz tor-ae4077916c94e9c15fa2800f51409ccb116bf63f.zip | |
Fix parse_virtual_addr_network minimum network size
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.1.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 2e73b2784c..9f4eb31445 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -1275,8 +1275,11 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if "172.16.0.0/12" and change the IPv6 network to "[FC00::]/7". The default **VirtualAddrNetwork** address ranges on a properly configured machine will route to the loopback or link-local - interface. For - local use, no change to the default VirtualAddrNetwork setting is needed. + 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 + used IP. For local use, no change to the default VirtualAddrNetwork setting + is needed. [[AllowNonRFC953Hostnames]] **AllowNonRFC953Hostnames** **0**|**1**:: When this option is disabled, Tor blocks hostnames containing illegal |