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Commit 504d4aa8 authored by Nick Mathewson's avatar Nick Mathewson :game_die:
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Expand the manpage to say: watch out for nonlocal socks

This clears up the remaining issue stopping me from closing bug 6297.
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......@@ -914,7 +914,13 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
IPv6.)
**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.)
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.
**SOCKSListenAddress** __IP__[:__PORT__]::
Bind to this address to listen for connections from Socks-speaking
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