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diff --git a/doc/tor.1.in b/doc/tor.1.in index 0c153ef04..04bb3fa1a 100644 --- a/doc/tor.1.in +++ b/doc/tor.1.in @@ -406,11 +406,20 @@ as long-term entries for our circuits. (Defaults to 3.) .LP .TP +\fBSafeSocks \fR\fI0|1\fP +When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that +use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an +IP address, meaning the application is doing a DNS resolve first. +Specifically, these are socks4 and socks5 when not doing remote DNS. +(Defaults to 0.) +.LP +.TP \fBTestSocks \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP When this option is enabled, Tor will make a notice-level log entry for each connection to the Socks port indicating whether the request used -a hostname (safe) or an IP address (unsafe). This helps to determine -whether an application using Tor is possibly leaking DNS requests. +a safe socks protocol or an unsafe one (see above entry on SafeSocks). +This helps to determine whether an application using Tor is possibly +leaking DNS requests. (Default: 0) .SH SERVER OPTIONS |