Tor behaves arrogant (ControlListenAddress)

When I set in torrc:

ControlPort 9051 ControlListenAddress 192.168.14.1:9051

Tor says:

Dec 25 17:57:38.866 [notice] Tor v0.2.0.31 (r16744). This is experimental software. Do not rely on it for strong anonymity. (Running on Linux i686) Dec 25 17:57:38.897 [warn] You have a ControlListenAddress set to accept connections from a non-local address. This means that any program on the internet can reconfigure your Tor. That's so bad that I'm closing your ControlPort for you.

That's wrong.

1. 192.168.* is not the internet.
2. I am root. Programs do, what I want. Even if I decide to open a ControlPort on 0.0.0.0, tor has to follow my command. I am the almighty operator. Period. :-)

You could ask, why somebody would set the ControlListenAddress to a local network. The answer is simple: I am running some virtual machines on 192.168.14.*, they only see the host computer as 192.168.14.1 and nothing else. On these machines I want to use trans-proxy-tor, which needs to connect to the control port to work.

I have attached a patch.

Patch: --- src/or/config.c.orig 2008-12-25 18:18:13.000000000 +0100 +++ src/or/config.c 2008-12-25 18:19:39.000000000 +0100 @@ -3216,8 +3216,7 @@ log_warn(LD_CONFIG, "You have a ControlListenAddress set to accept " "connections from a non-local address. This means that " "any program on the internet can reconfigure your Tor. "

•             "That's so bad that I'm closing your ControlPort for you.");

•    options->ControlPort = 0;

•             "That's pretty bad.");
   } else {
     log_warn(LD_CONFIG, "You have a ControlListenAddress set to accept "
              "connections from a non-local address.  This means that "

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