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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2013-02-15 17:24:13 -0500 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2013-03-19 16:02:19 -0400 |
| commit | 343f7aa05967df43c3f7e5b392b66e21c08b7cb1 (patch) | |
| tree | 3ae18397f084e343189e716b2258d48e77858860 /doc | |
| parent | c6ca199888102a825f004f8613331f97525da486 (diff) | |
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Make the guard lifetime configurable and adjustable via the consensus
Fixes 8240.
(Don't actually increase the default guard lifetime. It seems likely to
break too many things if done precipitiously.)
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.1.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.1.txt b/doc/tor.1.txt index 773fccf53..5cf5a718c 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.txt +++ b/doc/tor.1.txt @@ -959,6 +959,12 @@ The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers as long-term entries for our circuits. (Default: 3) +**HeartbeatPeriod** __N__ **days**|**weeks**|**months**:: + If nonzero, and UseEntryGuards is set, minimum time to keep a guard before + picking a new one. If zero, we use the GuardLifetime parameter from the + consensus directory. No value here may be less than 2 months or greater + than 5 years; out-of-range values are clamped. (Default: 0) + **SafeSocks** **0**|**1**:: When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an IP |