Loading doc/tor.1.txt +7 −8 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. (Default: 9050) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. The SOCKS protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it) unauthenticated, so exposing it in this way could leak your information to anybody watching your network, and allow anybody to use your computer as an open proxy. + + The _isolation flags_ arguments give Tor rules for which streams received on this SOCKSPort are allowed to share circuits with one Loading Loading @@ -1003,14 +1010,6 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if **PreferIPv6**;; Tells exits that, if a host has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, we would prefer to connect to it via IPv6. (IPv4 is the default.) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. The SOCKS protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it) unauthenticated, so exposing it in this way could leak your information to anybody watching your network, and allow anybody to use your computer as an open proxy. + + **CacheIPv4DNS**;; Tells the client to remember IPv4 DNS answers we receive from exit nodes via this connection. (On by default.) Loading Loading
doc/tor.1.txt +7 −8 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -962,6 +962,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. (Default: 9050) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. The SOCKS protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it) unauthenticated, so exposing it in this way could leak your information to anybody watching your network, and allow anybody to use your computer as an open proxy. + + The _isolation flags_ arguments give Tor rules for which streams received on this SOCKSPort are allowed to share circuits with one Loading Loading @@ -1003,14 +1010,6 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if **PreferIPv6**;; Tells exits that, if a host has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address, we would prefer to connect to it via IPv6. (IPv4 is the default.) + + NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution. The SOCKS protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it) unauthenticated, so exposing it in this way could leak your information to anybody watching your network, and allow anybody to use your computer as an open proxy. + + **CacheIPv4DNS**;; Tells the client to remember IPv4 DNS answers we receive from exit nodes via this connection. (On by default.) Loading