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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-07-05 12:58:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-07-05 12:58:51 -0400 |
| commit | 42e787817cc78aba714bed683f8a7a9efd7d4f30 (patch) | |
| tree | 767ae1c46d86e21327237b78101028d318da99fb /doc | |
| parent | d4f08c74fe4c907291f79dfaf28f94aac359aed6 (diff) | |
| download | tor-42e787817cc78aba714bed683f8a7a9efd7d4f30.tar.gz tor-42e787817cc78aba714bed683f8a7a9efd7d4f30.zip | |
Try to improve documentation for DirAuthority's port field.
Closes ticket 20152
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| -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 f0b7fa8e46..2f4337630f 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -436,9 +436,11 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS authority is listening for IPv6 connections on the indicated IPv6 address and OR Port. + + - Tor will contact the authority at __address__:__port__ (the DirPort) to - download directory documents. If an IPv6 address is supplied, Tor will - also download directory documents at the IPv6 address on the DirPort. + + Tor will contact the authority at __address__ to + download directory documents. The provided __port__ value is a dirport; + clients ignore this in favor of the specified "orport=" value. If an + IPv6 address is supplied, Tor will + also download directory documents at the IPv6 address on the ORPort. + + If no **DirAuthority** line is given, Tor will use the default directory authorities. NOTE: this option is intended for setting up a private Tor |