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diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 670c75d214..aa3859e0fe 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -504,11 +504,13 @@ GENERAL OPTIONS (Default: 1) [[FetchUselessDescriptors]] **FetchUselessDescriptors** **0**|**1**:: - If set to 1, Tor will fetch every non-obsolete descriptor from the - authorities that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless - descriptors, for example for routers that are not running. This option is - useful if you're using the contributed "exitlist" script to enumerate Tor - nodes that exit to certain addresses. (Default: 0) + If set to 1, Tor will fetch every consensus flavor, descriptor, and + certificate that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless + descriptors: flavors that it is not using to build circuits, and authority + certificates it does not trust. This option is useful if you're using a + tor client with an external parser that uses a full consensus. + This option fetches all documents, **DirCache** fetches and serves + all documents. (Default: 0) [[HTTPProxy]] **HTTPProxy** __host__[:__port__]:: Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80 |