From: Nick Mathewson Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 17:42:02 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Expand the manpage to say: watch out for nonlocal socks X-Git-Tag: tor-0.2.4.7-alpha~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=504d4aa8c61c172f2b73bcee00cb3cfb0e6fff07;p=thirdparty%2Ftor.git Expand the manpage to say: watch out for nonlocal socks This clears up the remaining issue stopping me from closing bug 6297. --- diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 1a7f8d597b..d2687177bb 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -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