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  1. // Copyright (c) The Tor Project, Inc.
  2. // See LICENSE for licensing information
  3. // This is an asciidoc file used to generate the manpage/html reference.
  4. // Learn asciidoc on http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/userguide.html
  5. :man source: Tor
  6. :man manual: Tor Manual
  7. TOR(1)
  8. ======
  9. NAME
  10. ----
  11. tor - The second-generation onion router
  12. SYNOPSIS
  13. --------
  14. **tor** [__OPTION__ __value__]...
  15. DESCRIPTION
  16. -----------
  17. Tor is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
  18. service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
  19. negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
  20. knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
  21. the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
  22. the downstream node. +
  23. Basically, Tor provides a distributed network of servers or relays ("onion routers").
  24. Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc. -- around the
  25. network, and recipients, observers, and even the relays themselves have
  26. difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
  27. By default, **tor** will act as a client only. To help the network
  28. by providing bandwidth as a relay, change the **ORPort** configuration
  29. option -- see below. Please also consult the documentation on the Tor
  30. Project's website.
  31. COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS
  32. --------------------
  33. [[opt-h]] **-h**, **-help**::
  34. Display a short help message and exit.
  35. [[opt-f]] **-f** __FILE__::
  36. Specify a new configuration file to contain further Tor configuration
  37. options OR pass *-* to make Tor read its configuration from standard
  38. input. (Default: @CONFDIR@/torrc, or $HOME/.torrc if that file is not
  39. found)
  40. [[opt-allow-missing-torrc]] **--allow-missing-torrc**::
  41. Do not require that configuration file specified by **-f** exist if
  42. default torrc can be accessed.
  43. [[opt-defaults-torrc]] **--defaults-torrc** __FILE__::
  44. Specify a file in which to find default values for Tor options. The
  45. contents of this file are overridden by those in the regular
  46. configuration file, and by those on the command line. (Default:
  47. @CONFDIR@/torrc-defaults.)
  48. [[opt-ignore-missing-torrc]] **--ignore-missing-torrc**::
  49. Specifies that Tor should treat a missing torrc file as though it
  50. were empty. Ordinarily, Tor does this for missing default torrc files,
  51. but not for those specified on the command line.
  52. [[opt-hash-password]] **--hash-password** __PASSWORD__::
  53. Generates a hashed password for control port access.
  54. [[opt-list-fingerprint]] **--list-fingerprint**::
  55. Generate your keys and output your nickname and fingerprint.
  56. [[opt-verify-config]] **--verify-config**::
  57. Verify the configuration file is valid.
  58. [[opt-serviceinstall]] **--service install** [**--options** __command-line options__]::
  59. Install an instance of Tor as a Windows service, with the provided
  60. command-line options. Current instructions can be found at
  61. https://www.torproject.org/docs/faq#NTService
  62. [[opt-service]] **--service** **remove**|**start**|**stop**::
  63. Remove, start, or stop a configured Tor Windows service.
  64. [[opt-nt-service]] **--nt-service**::
  65. Used internally to implement a Windows service.
  66. [[opt-list-torrc-options]] **--list-torrc-options**::
  67. List all valid options.
  68. [[opt-list-deprecated-options]] **--list-deprecated-options**::
  69. List all valid options that are scheduled to become obsolete in a
  70. future version. (This is a warning, not a promise.)
  71. [[opt-version]] **--version**::
  72. Display Tor version and exit.
  73. [[opt-quiet]] **--quiet**|**--hush**::
  74. Override the default console log. By default, Tor starts out logging
  75. messages at level "notice" and higher to the console. It stops doing so
  76. after it parses its configuration, if the configuration tells it to log
  77. anywhere else. You can override this behavior with the **--hush** option,
  78. which tells Tor to only send warnings and errors to the console, or with
  79. the **--quiet** option, which tells Tor not to log to the console at all.
  80. [[opt-keygen]] **--keygen** [**--newpass**]::
  81. Running "tor --keygen" creates a new ed25519 master identity key for a
  82. relay, or only a fresh temporary signing key and certificate, if you
  83. already have a master key. Optionally you can encrypt the master identity
  84. key with a passphrase: Tor will ask you for one. If you don't want to
  85. encrypt the master key, just don't enter any passphrase when asked. +
  86. +
  87. The **--newpass** option should be used with --keygen only when you need
  88. to add, change, or remove a passphrase on an existing ed25519 master
  89. identity key. You will be prompted for the old passphase (if any),
  90. and the new passphrase (if any). +
  91. +
  92. When generating a master key, you will probably want to use
  93. **--DataDirectory** to control where the keys
  94. and certificates will be stored, and **--SigningKeyLifetime** to
  95. control their lifetimes. Their behavior is as documented in the
  96. server options section below. (You must have write access to the specified
  97. DataDirectory.) +
  98. +
  99. To use the generated files, you must copy them to the DataDirectory/keys
  100. directory of your Tor daemon, and make sure that they are owned by the
  101. user actually running the Tor daemon on your system.
  102. **--passphrase-fd** __FILEDES__::
  103. Filedescriptor to read the passphrase from. Note that unlike with the
  104. tor-gencert program, the entire file contents are read and used as
  105. the passphrase, including any trailing newlines.
  106. Default: read from the terminal.
  107. Other options can be specified on the command-line in the format "--option
  108. value", in the format "option value", or in a configuration file. For
  109. instance, you can tell Tor to start listening for SOCKS connections on port
  110. 9999 by passing --SocksPort 9999 or SocksPort 9999 to it on the command line,
  111. or by putting "SocksPort 9999" in the configuration file. You will need to
  112. quote options with spaces in them: if you want Tor to log all debugging
  113. messages to debug.log, you will probably need to say --Log 'debug file
  114. debug.log'.
  115. Options on the command line override those in configuration files. See the
  116. next section for more information.
  117. THE CONFIGURATION FILE FORMAT
  118. -----------------------------
  119. All configuration options in a configuration are written on a single line by
  120. default. They take the form of an option name and a value, or an option name
  121. and a quoted value (option value or option "value"). Anything after a #
  122. character is treated as a comment. Options are
  123. case-insensitive. C-style escaped characters are allowed inside quoted
  124. values. To split one configuration entry into multiple lines, use a single
  125. backslash character (\) before the end of the line. Comments can be used in
  126. such multiline entries, but they must start at the beginning of a line.
  127. Configuration options can be imported from files or folders using the %include
  128. option with the value being a path. If the path is a file, the options from the
  129. file will be parsed as if they were written where the %include option is. If
  130. the path is a folder, all files on that folder will be parsed following lexical
  131. order. Files starting with a dot are ignored. Files on subfolders are ignored.
  132. The %include option can be used recursively.
  133. By default, an option on the command line overrides an option found in the
  134. configuration file, and an option in a configuration file overrides one in
  135. the defaults file.
  136. This rule is simple for options that take a single value, but it can become
  137. complicated for options that are allowed to occur more than once: if you
  138. specify four SocksPorts in your configuration file, and one more SocksPort on
  139. the command line, the option on the command line will replace __all__ of the
  140. SocksPorts in the configuration file. If this isn't what you want, prefix
  141. the option name with a plus sign (+), and it will be appended to the previous
  142. set of options instead. For example, setting SocksPort 9100 will use only
  143. port 9100, but setting +SocksPort 9100 will use ports 9100 and 9050 (because
  144. this is the default).
  145. Alternatively, you might want to remove every instance of an option in the
  146. configuration file, and not replace it at all: you might want to say on the
  147. command line that you want no SocksPorts at all. To do that, prefix the
  148. option name with a forward slash (/). You can use the plus sign (+) and the
  149. forward slash (/) in the configuration file and on the command line.
  150. GENERAL OPTIONS
  151. ---------------
  152. [[BandwidthRate]] **BandwidthRate** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  153. A token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage on this node
  154. to the specified number of bytes per second, and the average outgoing
  155. bandwidth usage to that same value. If you want to run a relay in the
  156. public network, this needs to be _at the very least_ 75 KBytes for a
  157. relay (that is, 600 kbits) or 50 KBytes for a bridge (400 kbits) -- but of
  158. course, more is better; we recommend at least 250 KBytes (2 mbits) if
  159. possible. (Default: 1 GByte) +
  160. +
  161. Note that this option, and other bandwidth-limiting options, apply to TCP
  162. data only: They do not count TCP headers or DNS traffic. +
  163. +
  164. With this option, and in other options that take arguments in bytes,
  165. KBytes, and so on, other formats are also supported. Notably, "KBytes" can
  166. also be written as "kilobytes" or "kb"; "MBytes" can be written as
  167. "megabytes" or "MB"; "kbits" can be written as "kilobits"; and so forth.
  168. Tor also accepts "byte" and "bit" in the singular.
  169. The prefixes "tera" and "T" are also recognized.
  170. If no units are given, we default to bytes.
  171. To avoid confusion, we recommend writing "bytes" or "bits" explicitly,
  172. since it's easy to forget that "B" means bytes, not bits.
  173. [[BandwidthBurst]] **BandwidthBurst** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  174. Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) to the given
  175. number of bytes in each direction. (Default: 1 GByte)
  176. [[MaxAdvertisedBandwidth]] **MaxAdvertisedBandwidth** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  177. If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth for our
  178. BandwidthRate. Server operators who want to reduce the number of clients
  179. who ask to build circuits through them (since this is proportional to
  180. advertised bandwidth rate) can thus reduce the CPU demands on their server
  181. without impacting network performance.
  182. [[RelayBandwidthRate]] **RelayBandwidthRate** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  183. If not 0, a separate token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth
  184. usage for \_relayed traffic_ on this node to the specified number of bytes
  185. per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same value.
  186. Relayed traffic currently is calculated to include answers to directory
  187. requests, but that may change in future versions. (Default: 0)
  188. [[RelayBandwidthBurst]] **RelayBandwidthBurst** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  189. If not 0, limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) for
  190. \_relayed traffic_ to the given number of bytes in each direction.
  191. (Default: 0)
  192. [[PerConnBWRate]] **PerConnBWRate** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  193. If set, do separate rate limiting for each connection from a non-relay.
  194. You should never need to change this value, since a network-wide value is
  195. published in the consensus and your relay will use that value. (Default: 0)
  196. [[PerConnBWBurst]] **PerConnBWBurst** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  197. If set, do separate rate limiting for each connection from a non-relay.
  198. You should never need to change this value, since a network-wide value is
  199. published in the consensus and your relay will use that value. (Default: 0)
  200. [[ClientTransportPlugin]] **ClientTransportPlugin** __transport__ socks4|socks5 __IP__:__PORT__::
  201. **ClientTransportPlugin** __transport__ exec __path-to-binary__ [options]::
  202. In its first form, when set along with a corresponding Bridge line, the Tor
  203. client forwards its traffic to a SOCKS-speaking proxy on "IP:PORT". It's the
  204. duty of that proxy to properly forward the traffic to the bridge. +
  205. +
  206. In its second form, when set along with a corresponding Bridge line, the Tor
  207. client launches the pluggable transport proxy executable in
  208. __path-to-binary__ using __options__ as its command-line options, and
  209. forwards its traffic to it. It's the duty of that proxy to properly forward
  210. the traffic to the bridge.
  211. [[ServerTransportPlugin]] **ServerTransportPlugin** __transport__ exec __path-to-binary__ [options]::
  212. The Tor relay launches the pluggable transport proxy in __path-to-binary__
  213. using __options__ as its command-line options, and expects to receive
  214. proxied client traffic from it.
  215. [[ServerTransportListenAddr]] **ServerTransportListenAddr** __transport__ __IP__:__PORT__::
  216. When this option is set, Tor will suggest __IP__:__PORT__ as the
  217. listening address of any pluggable transport proxy that tries to
  218. launch __transport__.
  219. [[ServerTransportOptions]] **ServerTransportOptions** __transport__ __k=v__ __k=v__ ...::
  220. When this option is set, Tor will pass the __k=v__ parameters to
  221. any pluggable transport proxy that tries to launch __transport__. +
  222. (Example: ServerTransportOptions obfs45 shared-secret=bridgepasswd cache=/var/lib/tor/cache)
  223. [[ExtORPort]] **ExtORPort** \['address':]__port__|**auto**::
  224. Open this port to listen for Extended ORPort connections from your
  225. pluggable transports.
  226. [[ExtORPortCookieAuthFile]] **ExtORPortCookieAuthFile** __Path__::
  227. If set, this option overrides the default location and file name
  228. for the Extended ORPort's cookie file -- the cookie file is needed
  229. for pluggable transports to communicate through the Extended ORPort.
  230. [[ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable]] **ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
  231. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read the
  232. Extended OR Port cookie file. If the option is set to 1, make the cookie
  233. file readable by the default GID. [Making the file readable by other
  234. groups is not yet implemented; let us know if you need this for some
  235. reason.] (Default: 0)
  236. [[ConnLimit]] **ConnLimit** __NUM__::
  237. The minimum number of file descriptors that must be available to the Tor
  238. process before it will start. Tor will ask the OS for as many file
  239. descriptors as the OS will allow (you can find this by "ulimit -H -n").
  240. If this number is less than ConnLimit, then Tor will refuse to start. +
  241. +
  242. You probably don't need to adjust this. It has no effect on Windows
  243. since that platform lacks getrlimit(). (Default: 1000)
  244. [[DisableNetwork]] **DisableNetwork** **0**|**1**::
  245. When this option is set, we don't listen for or accept any connections
  246. other than controller connections, and we close (and don't reattempt)
  247. any outbound
  248. connections. Controllers sometimes use this option to avoid using
  249. the network until Tor is fully configured. (Default: 0)
  250. [[ConstrainedSockets]] **ConstrainedSockets** **0**|**1**::
  251. If set, Tor will tell the kernel to attempt to shrink the buffers for all
  252. sockets to the size specified in **ConstrainedSockSize**. This is useful for
  253. virtual servers and other environments where system level TCP buffers may
  254. be limited. If you're on a virtual server, and you encounter the "Error
  255. creating network socket: No buffer space available" message, you are
  256. likely experiencing this problem. +
  257. +
  258. The preferred solution is to have the admin increase the buffer pool for
  259. the host itself via /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem or equivalent facility;
  260. this configuration option is a second-resort. +
  261. +
  262. The DirPort option should also not be used if TCP buffers are scarce. The
  263. cached directory requests consume additional sockets which exacerbates
  264. the problem. +
  265. +
  266. You should **not** enable this feature unless you encounter the "no buffer
  267. space available" issue. Reducing the TCP buffers affects window size for
  268. the TCP stream and will reduce throughput in proportion to round trip
  269. time on long paths. (Default: 0)
  270. [[ConstrainedSockSize]] **ConstrainedSockSize** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**::
  271. When **ConstrainedSockets** is enabled the receive and transmit buffers for
  272. all sockets will be set to this limit. Must be a value between 2048 and
  273. 262144, in 1024 byte increments. Default of 8192 is recommended.
  274. [[ControlPort]] **ControlPort** __PORT__|**unix:**__path__|**auto** [__flags__]::
  275. If set, Tor will accept connections on this port and allow those
  276. connections to control the Tor process using the Tor Control Protocol
  277. (described in control-spec.txt in
  278. https://spec.torproject.org[torspec]). Note: unless you also
  279. specify one or more of **HashedControlPassword** or
  280. **CookieAuthentication**, setting this option will cause Tor to allow
  281. any process on the local host to control it. (Setting both authentication
  282. methods means either method is sufficient to authenticate to Tor.) This
  283. option is required for many Tor controllers; most use the value of 9051.
  284. If a unix domain socket is used, you may quote the path using standard
  285. C escape sequences.
  286. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. (Default: 0) +
  287. +
  288. Recognized flags are...
  289. **GroupWritable**;;
  290. Unix domain sockets only: makes the socket get created as
  291. group-writable.
  292. **WorldWritable**;;
  293. Unix domain sockets only: makes the socket get created as
  294. world-writable.
  295. **RelaxDirModeCheck**;;
  296. Unix domain sockets only: Do not insist that the directory
  297. that holds the socket be read-restricted.
  298. [[ControlSocket]] **ControlSocket** __Path__::
  299. Like ControlPort, but listens on a Unix domain socket, rather than a TCP
  300. socket. '0' disables ControlSocket (Unix and Unix-like systems only.)
  301. [[ControlSocketsGroupWritable]] **ControlSocketsGroupWritable** **0**|**1**::
  302. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read and
  303. write unix sockets (e.g. ControlSocket). If the option is set to 1, make
  304. the control socket readable and writable by the default GID. (Default: 0)
  305. [[HashedControlPassword]] **HashedControlPassword** __hashed_password__::
  306. Allow connections on the control port if they present
  307. the password whose one-way hash is __hashed_password__. You
  308. can compute the hash of a password by running "tor --hash-password
  309. __password__". You can provide several acceptable passwords by using more
  310. than one HashedControlPassword line.
  311. [[CookieAuthentication]] **CookieAuthentication** **0**|**1**::
  312. If this option is set to 1, allow connections on the control port
  313. when the connecting process knows the contents of a file named
  314. "control_auth_cookie", which Tor will create in its data directory. This
  315. authentication method should only be used on systems with good filesystem
  316. security. (Default: 0)
  317. [[CookieAuthFile]] **CookieAuthFile** __Path__::
  318. If set, this option overrides the default location and file name
  319. for Tor's cookie file. (See CookieAuthentication above.)
  320. [[CookieAuthFileGroupReadable]] **CookieAuthFileGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
  321. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read the
  322. cookie file. If the option is set to 1, make the cookie file readable by
  323. the default GID. [Making the file readable by other groups is not yet
  324. implemented; let us know if you need this for some reason.] (Default: 0)
  325. [[ControlPortWriteToFile]] **ControlPortWriteToFile** __Path__::
  326. If set, Tor writes the address and port of any control port it opens to
  327. this address. Usable by controllers to learn the actual control port
  328. when ControlPort is set to "auto".
  329. [[ControlPortFileGroupReadable]] **ControlPortFileGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
  330. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read the
  331. control port file. If the option is set to 1, make the control port
  332. file readable by the default GID. (Default: 0)
  333. [[DataDirectory]] **DataDirectory** __DIR__::
  334. Store working data in DIR. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  335. (Default: ~/.tor if your home directory is not /; otherwise,
  336. @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor. On Windows, the default is
  337. your ApplicationData folder.)
  338. [[DataDirectoryGroupReadable]] **DataDirectoryGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
  339. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read the
  340. DataDirectory. If the option is set to 1, make the DataDirectory readable
  341. by the default GID. (Default: 0)
  342. [[FallbackDir]] **FallbackDir** __address__:__port__ orport=__port__ id=__fingerprint__ [weight=__num__] [ipv6=__address__:__orport__]::
  343. When we're unable to connect to any directory cache for directory info
  344. (usually because we don't know about any yet) we try a directory authority.
  345. Clients also simultaneously try a FallbackDir, to avoid hangs on client
  346. startup if a directory authority is down. Clients retry FallbackDirs more
  347. often than directory authorities, to reduce the load on the directory
  348. authorities.
  349. By default, the directory authorities are also FallbackDirs. Specifying a
  350. FallbackDir replaces Tor's default hard-coded FallbackDirs (if any).
  351. (See the **DirAuthority** entry for an explanation of each flag.)
  352. [[UseDefaultFallbackDirs]] **UseDefaultFallbackDirs** **0**|**1**::
  353. Use Tor's default hard-coded FallbackDirs (if any). (When a
  354. FallbackDir line is present, it replaces the hard-coded FallbackDirs,
  355. regardless of the value of UseDefaultFallbackDirs.) (Default: 1)
  356. [[DirAuthority]] **DirAuthority** [__nickname__] [**flags**] __address__:__port__ __fingerprint__::
  357. Use a nonstandard authoritative directory server at the provided address
  358. and port, with the specified key fingerprint. This option can be repeated
  359. many times, for multiple authoritative directory servers. Flags are
  360. separated by spaces, and determine what kind of an authority this directory
  361. is. By default, an authority is not authoritative for any directory style
  362. or version unless an appropriate flag is given.
  363. Tor will use this authority as a bridge authoritative directory if the
  364. "bridge" flag is set. If a flag "orport=**port**" is given, Tor will use the
  365. given port when opening encrypted tunnels to the dirserver. If a flag
  366. "weight=**num**" is given, then the directory server is chosen randomly
  367. with probability proportional to that weight (default 1.0). If a
  368. flag "v3ident=**fp**" is given, the dirserver is a v3 directory authority
  369. whose v3 long-term signing key has the fingerprint **fp**. Lastly,
  370. if an "ipv6=__address__:__orport__" flag is present, then the directory
  371. authority is listening for IPv6 connections on the indicated IPv6 address
  372. and OR Port. +
  373. +
  374. Tor will contact the authority at __address__:__port__ (the DirPort) to
  375. download directory documents. If an IPv6 address is supplied, Tor will
  376. also download directory documents at the IPv6 address on the DirPort. +
  377. +
  378. If no **DirAuthority** line is given, Tor will use the default directory
  379. authorities. NOTE: this option is intended for setting up a private Tor
  380. network with its own directory authorities. If you use it, you will be
  381. distinguishable from other users, because you won't believe the same
  382. authorities they do.
  383. [[DirAuthorityFallbackRate]] **DirAuthorityFallbackRate** __NUM__::
  384. When configured to use both directory authorities and fallback
  385. directories, the directory authorities also work as fallbacks. They are
  386. chosen with their regular weights, multiplied by this number, which
  387. should be 1.0 or less. (Default: 1.0)
  388. [[AlternateDirAuthority]] **AlternateDirAuthority** [__nickname__] [**flags**] __address__:__port__ __fingerprint__ +
  389. [[AlternateBridgeAuthority]] **AlternateBridgeAuthority** [__nickname__] [**flags**] __address__:__port__ __ fingerprint__::
  390. These options behave as DirAuthority, but they replace fewer of the
  391. default directory authorities. Using
  392. AlternateDirAuthority replaces the default Tor directory authorities, but
  393. leaves the default bridge authorities in
  394. place. Similarly,
  395. AlternateBridgeAuthority replaces the default bridge authority,
  396. but leaves the directory authorities alone.
  397. [[DisableAllSwap]] **DisableAllSwap** **0**|**1**::
  398. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all current and future memory pages,
  399. so that memory cannot be paged out. Windows, OS X and Solaris are currently
  400. not supported. We believe that this feature works on modern Gnu/Linux
  401. distributions, and that it should work on *BSD systems (untested). This
  402. option requires that you start your Tor as root, and you should use the
  403. **User** option to properly reduce Tor's privileges.
  404. Can not be changed while tor is running. (Default: 0)
  405. [[DisableDebuggerAttachment]] **DisableDebuggerAttachment** **0**|**1**::
  406. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts
  407. by other processes. This may also keep Tor from generating core files if
  408. it crashes. It has no impact for users who wish to attach if they
  409. have CAP_SYS_PTRACE or if they are root. We believe that this feature
  410. works on modern Gnu/Linux distributions, and that it may also work on *BSD
  411. systems (untested). Some modern Gnu/Linux systems such as Ubuntu have the
  412. kernel.yama.ptrace_scope sysctl and by default enable it as an attempt to
  413. limit the PTRACE scope for all user processes by default. This feature will
  414. attempt to limit the PTRACE scope for Tor specifically - it will not attempt
  415. to alter the system wide ptrace scope as it may not even exist. If you wish
  416. to attach to Tor with a debugger such as gdb or strace you will want to set
  417. this to 0 for the duration of your debugging. Normal users should leave it
  418. on. Disabling this option while Tor is running is prohibited. (Default: 1)
  419. [[FetchDirInfoEarly]] **FetchDirInfoEarly** **0**|**1**::
  420. If set to 1, Tor will always fetch directory information like other
  421. directory caches, even if you don't meet the normal criteria for fetching
  422. early. Normal users should leave it off. (Default: 0)
  423. [[FetchDirInfoExtraEarly]] **FetchDirInfoExtraEarly** **0**|**1**::
  424. If set to 1, Tor will fetch directory information before other directory
  425. caches. It will attempt to download directory information closer to the
  426. start of the consensus period. Normal users should leave it off.
  427. (Default: 0)
  428. [[FetchHidServDescriptors]] **FetchHidServDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
  429. If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any hidden service descriptors from the
  430. rendezvous directories. This option is only useful if you're using a Tor
  431. controller that handles hidden service fetches for you. (Default: 1)
  432. [[FetchServerDescriptors]] **FetchServerDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
  433. If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any network status summaries or server
  434. descriptors from the directory servers. This option is only useful if
  435. you're using a Tor controller that handles directory fetches for you.
  436. (Default: 1)
  437. [[FetchUselessDescriptors]] **FetchUselessDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
  438. If set to 1, Tor will fetch every consensus flavor, descriptor, and
  439. certificate that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
  440. descriptors: flavors that it is not using to build circuits, and authority
  441. certificates it does not trust. This option is useful if you're using a
  442. tor client with an external parser that uses a full consensus.
  443. This option fetches all documents, **DirCache** fetches and serves
  444. all documents. (Default: 0)
  445. [[HTTPProxy]] **HTTPProxy** __host__[:__port__]::
  446. Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80
  447. if port is not specified), rather than connecting directly to any directory
  448. servers. (DEPRECATED: As of 0.3.1.0-alpha you should use HTTPSProxy.)
  449. [[HTTPProxyAuthenticator]] **HTTPProxyAuthenticator** __username:password__::
  450. If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic HTTP proxy
  451. authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of HTTP
  452. proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a patch if you
  453. want it to support others. (DEPRECATED: As of 0.3.1.0-alpha you should use
  454. HTTPSProxyAuthenticator.)
  455. [[HTTPSProxy]] **HTTPSProxy** __host__[:__port__]::
  456. Tor will make all its OR (SSL) connections through this host:port (or
  457. host:443 if port is not specified), via HTTP CONNECT rather than connecting
  458. directly to servers. You may want to set **FascistFirewall** to restrict
  459. the set of ports you might try to connect to, if your HTTPS proxy only
  460. allows connecting to certain ports.
  461. [[HTTPSProxyAuthenticator]] **HTTPSProxyAuthenticator** __username:password__::
  462. If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic HTTPS proxy
  463. authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of HTTPS
  464. proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a patch if you
  465. want it to support others.
  466. [[Sandbox]] **Sandbox** **0**|**1**::
  467. If set to 1, Tor will run securely through the use of a syscall sandbox.
  468. Otherwise the sandbox will be disabled. The option is currently an
  469. experimental feature. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  470. When the Sandbox is 1, the following options can not be changed when tor
  471. is running:
  472. Address
  473. ConnLimit
  474. CookieAuthFile
  475. DirPortFrontPage
  476. ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
  477. Logs
  478. ServerDNSResolvConfFile
  479. Tor must remain in client or server mode (some changes to ClientOnly and
  480. ORPort are not allowed).
  481. (Default: 0)
  482. [[Socks4Proxy]] **Socks4Proxy** __host__[:__port__]::
  483. Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 4 proxy at host:port
  484. (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
  485. [[Socks5Proxy]] **Socks5Proxy** __host__[:__port__]::
  486. Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 5 proxy at host:port
  487. (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
  488. [[Socks5ProxyUsername]] **Socks5ProxyUsername** __username__ +
  489. [[Socks5ProxyPassword]] **Socks5ProxyPassword** __password__::
  490. If defined, authenticate to the SOCKS 5 server using username and password
  491. in accordance to RFC 1929. Both username and password must be between 1 and
  492. 255 characters.
  493. [[SocksSocketsGroupWritable]] **SocksSocketsGroupWritable** **0**|**1**::
  494. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read and
  495. write unix sockets (e.g. SocksSocket). If the option is set to 1, make
  496. the SocksSocket socket readable and writable by the default GID. (Default: 0)
  497. [[KeepalivePeriod]] **KeepalivePeriod** __NUM__::
  498. To keep firewalls from expiring connections, send a padding keepalive cell
  499. every NUM seconds on open connections that are in use. If the connection
  500. has no open circuits, it will instead be closed after NUM seconds of
  501. idleness. (Default: 5 minutes)
  502. [[Log]] **Log** __minSeverity__[-__maxSeverity__] **stderr**|**stdout**|**syslog**::
  503. Send all messages between __minSeverity__ and __maxSeverity__ to the standard
  504. output stream, the standard error stream, or to the system log. (The
  505. "syslog" value is only supported on Unix.) Recognized severity levels are
  506. debug, info, notice, warn, and err. We advise using "notice" in most cases,
  507. since anything more verbose may provide sensitive information to an
  508. attacker who obtains the logs. If only one severity level is given, all
  509. messages of that level or higher will be sent to the listed destination.
  510. [[Log2]] **Log** __minSeverity__[-__maxSeverity__] **file** __FILENAME__::
  511. As above, but send log messages to the listed filename. The
  512. "Log" option may appear more than once in a configuration file.
  513. Messages are sent to all the logs that match their severity
  514. level.
  515. [[Log3]] **Log** **[**__domain__,...**]**__minSeverity__[-__maxSeverity__] ... **file** __FILENAME__ +
  516. [[Log4]] **Log** **[**__domain__,...**]**__minSeverity__[-__maxSeverity__] ... **stderr**|**stdout**|**syslog**::
  517. As above, but select messages by range of log severity __and__ by a
  518. set of "logging domains". Each logging domain corresponds to an area of
  519. functionality inside Tor. You can specify any number of severity ranges
  520. for a single log statement, each of them prefixed by a comma-separated
  521. list of logging domains. You can prefix a domain with $$~$$ to indicate
  522. negation, and use * to indicate "all domains". If you specify a severity
  523. range without a list of domains, it matches all domains. +
  524. +
  525. This is an advanced feature which is most useful for debugging one or two
  526. of Tor's subsystems at a time. +
  527. +
  528. The currently recognized domains are: general, crypto, net, config, fs,
  529. protocol, mm, http, app, control, circ, rend, bug, dir, dirserv, or, edge,
  530. acct, hist, and handshake. Domain names are case-insensitive. +
  531. +
  532. For example, "`Log [handshake]debug [~net,~mm]info notice stdout`" sends
  533. to stdout: all handshake messages of any severity, all info-and-higher
  534. messages from domains other than networking and memory management, and all
  535. messages of severity notice or higher.
  536. [[LogMessageDomains]] **LogMessageDomains** **0**|**1**::
  537. If 1, Tor includes message domains with each log message. Every log
  538. message currently has at least one domain; most currently have exactly
  539. one. This doesn't affect controller log messages. (Default: 0)
  540. [[MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog]] **MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**::
  541. Unparseable descriptors (e.g. for votes, consensuses, routers) are logged
  542. in separate files by hash, up to the specified size in total. Note that
  543. only files logged during the lifetime of this Tor process count toward the
  544. total; this is intended to be used to debug problems without opening live
  545. servers to resource exhaustion attacks. (Default: 10 MB)
  546. [[OutboundBindAddress]] **OutboundBindAddress** __IP__::
  547. Make all outbound connections originate from the IP address specified. This
  548. is only useful when you have multiple network interfaces, and you want all
  549. of Tor's outgoing connections to use a single one. This option may
  550. be used twice, once with an IPv4 address and once with an IPv6 address.
  551. This setting will be ignored for connections to the loopback addresses
  552. (127.0.0.0/8 and ::1).
  553. [[OutboundBindAddressOR]] **OutboundBindAddressOR** __IP__::
  554. Make all outbound non-exit (relay and other) connections
  555. originate from the IP address specified. This option overrides
  556. **OutboundBindAddress** for the same IP version. This option may
  557. be used twice, once with an IPv4 address and once with an IPv6
  558. address. This setting will be ignored for connections to the loopback
  559. addresses (127.0.0.0/8 and ::1).
  560. [[OutboundBindAddressExit]] **OutboundBindAddressExit** __IP__::
  561. Make all outbound exit connections originate from the IP address
  562. specified. This option overrides **OutboundBindAddress** for the
  563. same IP version. This option may be used twice, once with an IPv4
  564. address and once with an IPv6 address. This setting will be ignored
  565. for connections to the loopback addresses (127.0.0.0/8 and ::1).
  566. [[PidFile]] **PidFile** __FILE__::
  567. On startup, write our PID to FILE. On clean shutdown, remove
  568. FILE. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  569. [[ProtocolWarnings]] **ProtocolWarnings** **0**|**1**::
  570. If 1, Tor will log with severity \'warn' various cases of other parties not
  571. following the Tor specification. Otherwise, they are logged with severity
  572. \'info'. (Default: 0)
  573. [[RunAsDaemon]] **RunAsDaemon** **0**|**1**::
  574. If 1, Tor forks and daemonizes to the background. This option has no effect
  575. on Windows; instead you should use the --service command-line option.
  576. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  577. (Default: 0)
  578. [[LogTimeGranularity]] **LogTimeGranularity** __NUM__::
  579. Set the resolution of timestamps in Tor's logs to NUM milliseconds.
  580. NUM must be positive and either a divisor or a multiple of 1 second.
  581. Note that this option only controls the granularity written by Tor to
  582. a file or console log. Tor does not (for example) "batch up" log
  583. messages to affect times logged by a controller, times attached to
  584. syslog messages, or the mtime fields on log files. (Default: 1 second)
  585. [[TruncateLogFile]] **TruncateLogFile** **0**|**1**::
  586. If 1, Tor will overwrite logs at startup and in response to a HUP signal,
  587. instead of appending to them. (Default: 0)
  588. [[SyslogIdentityTag]] **SyslogIdentityTag** __tag__::
  589. When logging to syslog, adds a tag to the syslog identity such that
  590. log entries are marked with "Tor-__tag__". Can not be changed while tor is
  591. running. (Default: none)
  592. [[SafeLogging]] **SafeLogging** **0**|**1**|**relay**::
  593. Tor can scrub potentially sensitive strings from log messages (e.g.
  594. addresses) by replacing them with the string [scrubbed]. This way logs can
  595. still be useful, but they don't leave behind personally identifying
  596. information about what sites a user might have visited. +
  597. +
  598. If this option is set to 0, Tor will not perform any scrubbing, if it is
  599. set to 1, all potentially sensitive strings are replaced. If it is set to
  600. relay, all log messages generated when acting as a relay are sanitized, but
  601. all messages generated when acting as a client are not. (Default: 1)
  602. [[User]] **User** __Username__::
  603. On startup, setuid to this user and setgid to their primary group.
  604. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  605. [[KeepBindCapabilities]] **KeepBindCapabilities** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  606. On Linux, when we are started as root and we switch our identity using
  607. the **User** option, the **KeepBindCapabilities** option tells us whether to
  608. try to retain our ability to bind to low ports. If this value is 1, we
  609. try to keep the capability; if it is 0 we do not; and if it is **auto**,
  610. we keep the capability only if we are configured to listen on a low port.
  611. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  612. (Default: auto.)
  613. [[HardwareAccel]] **HardwareAccel** **0**|**1**::
  614. If non-zero, try to use built-in (static) crypto hardware acceleration when
  615. available. Can not be changed while tor is running. (Default: 0)
  616. [[AccelName]] **AccelName** __NAME__::
  617. When using OpenSSL hardware crypto acceleration attempt to load the dynamic
  618. engine of this name. This must be used for any dynamic hardware engine.
  619. Names can be verified with the openssl engine command. Can not be changed
  620. while tor is running.
  621. [[AccelDir]] **AccelDir** __DIR__::
  622. Specify this option if using dynamic hardware acceleration and the engine
  623. implementation library resides somewhere other than the OpenSSL default.
  624. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  625. [[AvoidDiskWrites]] **AvoidDiskWrites** **0**|**1**::
  626. If non-zero, try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise.
  627. This is useful when running on flash memory or other media that support
  628. only a limited number of writes. (Default: 0)
  629. [[CircuitPriorityHalflife]] **CircuitPriorityHalflife** __NUM1__::
  630. If this value is set, we override the default algorithm for choosing which
  631. circuit's cell to deliver or relay next. When the value is 0, we
  632. round-robin between the active circuits on a connection, delivering one
  633. cell from each in turn. When the value is positive, we prefer delivering
  634. cells from whichever connection has the lowest weighted cell count, where
  635. cells are weighted exponentially according to the supplied
  636. CircuitPriorityHalflife value (in seconds). If this option is not set at
  637. all, we use the behavior recommended in the current consensus
  638. networkstatus. This is an advanced option; you generally shouldn't have
  639. to mess with it. (Default: not set)
  640. [[CountPrivateBandwidth]] **CountPrivateBandwidth** **0**|**1**::
  641. If this option is set, then Tor's rate-limiting applies not only to
  642. remote connections, but also to connections to private addresses like
  643. 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1. This is mostly useful for debugging
  644. rate-limiting. (Default: 0)
  645. [[ExtendByEd25519ID]] **ExtendByEd25519ID** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  646. If this option is set to 1, we always try to include a relay's Ed25519 ID
  647. when telling the proceeding relay in a circuit to extend to it.
  648. If this option is set to 0, we never include Ed25519 IDs when extending
  649. circuits. If the option is set to "default", we obey a
  650. parameter in the consensus document. (Default: auto)
  651. CLIENT OPTIONS
  652. --------------
  653. The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if
  654. **SocksPort**, **TransPort**, **DNSPort**, or **NATDPort** is non-zero):
  655. [[Bridge]] **Bridge** [__transport__] __IP__:__ORPort__ [__fingerprint__]::
  656. When set along with UseBridges, instructs Tor to use the relay at
  657. "IP:ORPort" as a "bridge" relaying into the Tor network. If "fingerprint"
  658. is provided (using the same format as for DirAuthority), we will verify that
  659. the relay running at that location has the right fingerprint. We also use
  660. fingerprint to look up the bridge descriptor at the bridge authority, if
  661. it's provided and if UpdateBridgesFromAuthority is set too. +
  662. +
  663. If "transport" is provided, it must match a ClientTransportPlugin line. We
  664. then use that pluggable transport's proxy to transfer data to the bridge,
  665. rather than connecting to the bridge directly. Some transports use a
  666. transport-specific method to work out the remote address to connect to.
  667. These transports typically ignore the "IP:ORPort" specified in the bridge
  668. line. +
  669. +
  670. Tor passes any "key=val" settings to the pluggable transport proxy as
  671. per-connection arguments when connecting to the bridge. Consult
  672. the documentation of the pluggable transport for details of what
  673. arguments it supports.
  674. [[LearnCircuitBuildTimeout]] **LearnCircuitBuildTimeout** **0**|**1**::
  675. If 0, CircuitBuildTimeout adaptive learning is disabled. (Default: 1)
  676. [[CircuitBuildTimeout]] **CircuitBuildTimeout** __NUM__::
  677. Try for at most NUM seconds when building circuits. If the circuit isn't
  678. open in that time, give up on it. If LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is 1, this
  679. value serves as the initial value to use before a timeout is learned. If
  680. LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is 0, this value is the only value used.
  681. (Default: 60 seconds)
  682. [[CircuitsAvailableTimeout]] **CircuitsAvailableTimeout** __NUM__::
  683. Tor will attempt to keep at least one open, unused circuit available for
  684. this amount of time. This option governs how long idle circuits are kept
  685. open, as well as the amount of time Tor will keep a circuit open to each
  686. of the recently used ports. This way when the Tor client is entirely
  687. idle, it can expire all of its circuits, and then expire its TLS
  688. connections. Note that the actual timeout value is uniformly randomized
  689. from the specified value to twice that amount. (Default: 30 minutes;
  690. Max: 24 hours)
  691. [[CircuitStreamTimeout]] **CircuitStreamTimeout** __NUM__::
  692. If non-zero, this option overrides our internal timeout schedule for how
  693. many seconds until we detach a stream from a circuit and try a new circuit.
  694. If your network is particularly slow, you might want to set this to a
  695. number like 60. (Default: 0)
  696. [[ClientOnly]] **ClientOnly** **0**|**1**::
  697. If set to 1, Tor will not run as a relay or serve
  698. directory requests, even if the ORPort, ExtORPort, or DirPort options are
  699. set. (This config option is
  700. mostly unnecessary: we added it back when we were considering having
  701. Tor clients auto-promote themselves to being relays if they were stable
  702. and fast enough. The current behavior is simply that Tor is a client
  703. unless ORPort, ExtORPort, or DirPort are configured.) (Default: 0)
  704. [[ConnectionPadding]] **ConnectionPadding** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  705. This option governs Tor's use of padding to defend against some forms of
  706. traffic analysis. If it is set to 'auto', Tor will send padding only
  707. if both the client and the relay support it. If it is set to 0, Tor will
  708. not send any padding cells. If it is set to 1, Tor will still send padding
  709. for client connections regardless of relay support. Only clients may set
  710. this option. This option should be offered via the UI to mobile users
  711. for use where bandwidth may be expensive.
  712. (Default: auto)
  713. [[ReducedConnectionPadding]] **ReducedConnectionPadding** **0**|**1**::
  714. If set to 1, Tor will not not hold OR connections open for very long,
  715. and will send less padding on these connections. Only clients may set
  716. this option. This option should be offered via the UI to mobile users
  717. for use where bandwidth may be expensive. (Default: 0)
  718. [[ExcludeNodes]] **ExcludeNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  719. A list of identity fingerprints, country codes, and address
  720. patterns of nodes to avoid when building a circuit. Country codes are
  721. 2-letter ISO3166 codes, and must
  722. be wrapped in braces; fingerprints may be preceded by a dollar sign.
  723. (Example:
  724. ExcludeNodes ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234, \{cc}, 255.254.0.0/8) +
  725. +
  726. By default, this option is treated as a preference that Tor is allowed
  727. to override in order to keep working.
  728. For example, if you try to connect to a hidden service,
  729. but you have excluded all of the hidden service's introduction points,
  730. Tor will connect to one of them anyway. If you do not want this
  731. behavior, set the StrictNodes option (documented below). +
  732. +
  733. Note also that if you are a relay, this (and the other node selection
  734. options below) only affects your own circuits that Tor builds for you.
  735. Clients can still build circuits through you to any node. Controllers
  736. can tell Tor to build circuits through any node. +
  737. +
  738. Country codes are case-insensitive. The code "\{??}" refers to nodes whose
  739. country can't be identified. No country code, including \{??}, works if
  740. no GeoIPFile can be loaded. See also the GeoIPExcludeUnknown option below.
  741. [[ExcludeExitNodes]] **ExcludeExitNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  742. A list of identity fingerprints, country codes, and address
  743. patterns of nodes to never use when picking an exit node---that is, a
  744. node that delivers traffic for you *outside* the Tor network. Note that any
  745. node listed in ExcludeNodes is automatically considered to be part of this
  746. list too. See
  747. the **ExcludeNodes** option for more information on how to specify
  748. nodes. See also the caveats on the "ExitNodes" option below.
  749. [[GeoIPExcludeUnknown]] **GeoIPExcludeUnknown** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  750. If this option is set to 'auto', then whenever any country code is set in
  751. ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes, all nodes with unknown country (\{??} and
  752. possibly \{A1}) are treated as excluded as well. If this option is set to
  753. '1', then all unknown countries are treated as excluded in ExcludeNodes
  754. and ExcludeExitNodes. This option has no effect when a GeoIP file isn't
  755. configured or can't be found. (Default: auto)
  756. [[ExitNodes]] **ExitNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  757. A list of identity fingerprints, country codes, and address
  758. patterns of nodes to use as exit node---that is, a
  759. node that delivers traffic for you *outside* the Tor network. See
  760. the **ExcludeNodes** option for more information on how to specify nodes. +
  761. +
  762. Note that if you list too few nodes here, or if you exclude too many exit
  763. nodes with ExcludeExitNodes, you can degrade functionality. For example,
  764. if none of the exits you list allows traffic on port 80 or 443, you won't
  765. be able to browse the web. +
  766. +
  767. Note also that not every circuit is used to deliver traffic *outside* of
  768. the Tor network. It is normal to see non-exit circuits (such as those
  769. used to connect to hidden services, those that do directory fetches,
  770. those used for relay reachability self-tests, and so on) that end
  771. at a non-exit node. To
  772. keep a node from being used entirely, see ExcludeNodes and StrictNodes. +
  773. +
  774. The ExcludeNodes option overrides this option: any node listed in both
  775. ExitNodes and ExcludeNodes is treated as excluded. +
  776. +
  777. The .exit address notation, if enabled via AllowDotExit, overrides
  778. this option.
  779. [[EntryNodes]] **EntryNodes** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  780. A list of identity fingerprints and country codes of nodes
  781. to use for the first hop in your normal circuits.
  782. Normal circuits include all
  783. circuits except for direct connections to directory servers. The Bridge
  784. option overrides this option; if you have configured bridges and
  785. UseBridges is 1, the Bridges are used as your entry nodes. +
  786. +
  787. The ExcludeNodes option overrides this option: any node listed in both
  788. EntryNodes and ExcludeNodes is treated as excluded. See
  789. the **ExcludeNodes** option for more information on how to specify nodes.
  790. [[StrictNodes]] **StrictNodes** **0**|**1**::
  791. If StrictNodes is set to 1, Tor will treat solely the ExcludeNodes option
  792. as a requirement to follow for all the circuits you generate, even if
  793. doing so will break functionality for you (StrictNodes applies to neither
  794. ExcludeExitNodes nor to ExitNodes). If StrictNodes is set to 0, Tor will
  795. still try to avoid nodes in the ExcludeNodes list, but it will err on the
  796. side of avoiding unexpected errors. Specifically, StrictNodes 0 tells Tor
  797. that it is okay to use an excluded node when it is *necessary* to perform
  798. relay reachability self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
  799. hidden service to a client, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
  800. information, or download directory information. (Default: 0)
  801. [[FascistFirewall]] **FascistFirewall** **0**|**1**::
  802. If 1, Tor will only create outgoing connections to ORs running on ports
  803. that your firewall allows (defaults to 80 and 443; see **FirewallPorts**).
  804. This will allow you to run Tor as a client behind a firewall with
  805. restrictive policies, but will not allow you to run as a server behind such
  806. a firewall. If you prefer more fine-grained control, use
  807. ReachableAddresses instead.
  808. [[FirewallPorts]] **FirewallPorts** __PORTS__::
  809. A list of ports that your firewall allows you to connect to. Only used when
  810. **FascistFirewall** is set. This option is deprecated; use ReachableAddresses
  811. instead. (Default: 80, 443)
  812. [[ReachableAddresses]] **ReachableAddresses** __ADDR__[/__MASK__][:__PORT__]...::
  813. A comma-separated list of IP addresses and ports that your firewall allows
  814. you to connect to. The format is as for the addresses in ExitPolicy, except
  815. that "accept" is understood unless "reject" is explicitly provided. For
  816. example, \'ReachableAddresses 99.0.0.0/8, reject 18.0.0.0/8:80, accept
  817. \*:80' means that your firewall allows connections to everything inside net
  818. 99, rejects port 80 connections to net 18, and accepts connections to port
  819. 80 otherwise. (Default: \'accept \*:*'.)
  820. [[ReachableDirAddresses]] **ReachableDirAddresses** __ADDR__[/__MASK__][:__PORT__]...::
  821. Like **ReachableAddresses**, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey
  822. these restrictions when fetching directory information, using standard HTTP
  823. GET requests. If not set explicitly then the value of
  824. **ReachableAddresses** is used. If **HTTPProxy** is set then these
  825. connections will go through that proxy.
  826. [[ReachableORAddresses]] **ReachableORAddresses** __ADDR__[/__MASK__][:__PORT__]...::
  827. Like **ReachableAddresses**, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey
  828. these restrictions when connecting to Onion Routers, using TLS/SSL. If not
  829. set explicitly then the value of **ReachableAddresses** is used. If
  830. **HTTPSProxy** is set then these connections will go through that proxy. +
  831. +
  832. The separation between **ReachableORAddresses** and
  833. **ReachableDirAddresses** is only interesting when you are connecting
  834. through proxies (see **HTTPProxy** and **HTTPSProxy**). Most proxies limit
  835. TLS connections (which Tor uses to connect to Onion Routers) to port 443,
  836. and some limit HTTP GET requests (which Tor uses for fetching directory
  837. information) to port 80.
  838. [[HidServAuth]] **HidServAuth** __onion-address__ __auth-cookie__ [__service-name__]::
  839. Client authorization for a hidden service. Valid onion addresses contain 16
  840. characters in a-z2-7 plus ".onion", and valid auth cookies contain 22
  841. characters in A-Za-z0-9+/. The service name is only used for internal
  842. purposes, e.g., for Tor controllers. This option may be used multiple times
  843. for different hidden services. If a hidden service uses authorization and
  844. this option is not set, the hidden service is not accessible. Hidden
  845. services can be configured to require authorization using the
  846. **HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient** option.
  847. [[LongLivedPorts]] **LongLivedPorts** __PORTS__::
  848. A list of ports for services that tend to have long-running connections
  849. (e.g. chat and interactive shells). Circuits for streams that use these
  850. ports will contain only high-uptime nodes, to reduce the chance that a node
  851. will go down before the stream is finished. Note that the list is also
  852. honored for circuits (both client and service side) involving hidden
  853. services whose virtual port is in this list. (Default: 21, 22, 706,
  854. 1863, 5050, 5190, 5222, 5223, 6523, 6667, 6697, 8300)
  855. [[MapAddress]] **MapAddress** __address__ __newaddress__::
  856. When a request for address arrives to Tor, it will transform to newaddress
  857. before processing it. For example, if you always want connections to
  858. www.example.com to exit via __torserver__ (where __torserver__ is the
  859. fingerprint of the server), use "MapAddress www.example.com
  860. www.example.com.torserver.exit". If the value is prefixed with a
  861. "\*.", matches an entire domain. For example, if you
  862. always want connections to example.com and any if its subdomains
  863. to exit via
  864. __torserver__ (where __torserver__ is the fingerprint of the server), use
  865. "MapAddress \*.example.com \*.example.com.torserver.exit". (Note the
  866. leading "*." in each part of the directive.) You can also redirect all
  867. subdomains of a domain to a single address. For example, "MapAddress
  868. *.example.com www.example.com". +
  869. +
  870. NOTES:
  871. 1. When evaluating MapAddress expressions Tor stops when it hits the most
  872. recently added expression that matches the requested address. So if you
  873. have the following in your torrc, www.torproject.org will map to 1.1.1.1:
  874. MapAddress www.torproject.org 2.2.2.2
  875. MapAddress www.torproject.org 1.1.1.1
  876. 2. Tor evaluates the MapAddress configuration until it finds no matches. So
  877. if you have the following in your torrc, www.torproject.org will map to
  878. 2.2.2.2:
  879. MapAddress 1.1.1.1 2.2.2.2
  880. MapAddress www.torproject.org 1.1.1.1
  881. 3. The following MapAddress expression is invalid (and will be
  882. ignored) because you cannot map from a specific address to a wildcard
  883. address:
  884. MapAddress www.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit
  885. 4. Using a wildcard to match only part of a string (as in *ample.com) is
  886. also invalid.
  887. [[NewCircuitPeriod]] **NewCircuitPeriod** __NUM__::
  888. Every NUM seconds consider whether to build a new circuit. (Default: 30
  889. seconds)
  890. [[MaxCircuitDirtiness]] **MaxCircuitDirtiness** __NUM__::
  891. Feel free to reuse a circuit that was first used at most NUM seconds ago,
  892. but never attach a new stream to a circuit that is too old. For hidden
  893. services, this applies to the __last__ time a circuit was used, not the
  894. first. Circuits with streams constructed with SOCKS authentication via
  895. SocksPorts that have **KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth** also remain alive
  896. for MaxCircuitDirtiness seconds after carrying the last such stream.
  897. (Default: 10 minutes)
  898. [[MaxClientCircuitsPending]] **MaxClientCircuitsPending** __NUM__::
  899. Do not allow more than NUM circuits to be pending at a time for handling
  900. client streams. A circuit is pending if we have begun constructing it,
  901. but it has not yet been completely constructed. (Default: 32)
  902. [[NodeFamily]] **NodeFamily** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  903. The Tor servers, defined by their identity fingerprints,
  904. constitute a "family" of similar or co-administered servers, so never use
  905. any two of them in the same circuit. Defining a NodeFamily is only needed
  906. when a server doesn't list the family itself (with MyFamily). This option
  907. can be used multiple times; each instance defines a separate family. In
  908. addition to nodes, you can also list IP address and ranges and country
  909. codes in {curly braces}. See the **ExcludeNodes** option for more
  910. information on how to specify nodes.
  911. [[EnforceDistinctSubnets]] **EnforceDistinctSubnets** **0**|**1**::
  912. If 1, Tor will not put two servers whose IP addresses are "too close" on
  913. the same circuit. Currently, two addresses are "too close" if they lie in
  914. the same /16 range. (Default: 1)
  915. [[SocksPort]] **SocksPort** \['address':]__port__|**unix:**__path__|**auto** [_flags_] [_isolation flags_]::
  916. Open this port to listen for connections from SOCKS-speaking
  917. applications. Set this to 0 if you don't want to allow application
  918. connections via SOCKS. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for
  919. you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind
  920. to multiple addresses/ports. If a unix domain socket is used, you may
  921. quote the path using standard C escape sequences.
  922. (Default: 9050) +
  923. +
  924. NOTE: Although this option allows you to specify an IP address
  925. other than localhost, you should do so only with extreme caution.
  926. The SOCKS protocol is unencrypted and (as we use it)
  927. unauthenticated, so exposing it in this way could leak your
  928. information to anybody watching your network, and allow anybody
  929. to use your computer as an open proxy. +
  930. +
  931. The _isolation flags_ arguments give Tor rules for which streams
  932. received on this SocksPort are allowed to share circuits with one
  933. another. Recognized isolation flags are:
  934. **IsolateClientAddr**;;
  935. Don't share circuits with streams from a different
  936. client address. (On by default and strongly recommended when
  937. supported; you can disable it with **NoIsolateClientAddr**.
  938. Unsupported and force-disabled when using Unix domain sockets.)
  939. **IsolateSOCKSAuth**;;
  940. Don't share circuits with streams for which different
  941. SOCKS authentication was provided. (On by default;
  942. you can disable it with **NoIsolateSOCKSAuth**.)
  943. **IsolateClientProtocol**;;
  944. Don't share circuits with streams using a different protocol.
  945. (SOCKS 4, SOCKS 5, TransPort connections, NATDPort connections,
  946. and DNSPort requests are all considered to be different protocols.)
  947. **IsolateDestPort**;;
  948. Don't share circuits with streams targeting a different
  949. destination port.
  950. **IsolateDestAddr**;;
  951. Don't share circuits with streams targeting a different
  952. destination address.
  953. **KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth**;;
  954. If **IsolateSOCKSAuth** is enabled, keep alive circuits while they have
  955. at least one stream with SOCKS authentication active. After such a circuit
  956. is idle for more than MaxCircuitDirtiness seconds, it can be closed.
  957. **SessionGroup=**__INT__;;
  958. If no other isolation rules would prevent it, allow streams
  959. on this port to share circuits with streams from every other
  960. port with the same session group. (By default, streams received
  961. on different SocksPorts, TransPorts, etc are always isolated from one
  962. another. This option overrides that behavior.)
  963. [[OtherSocksPortFlags]]::
  964. Other recognized __flags__ for a SocksPort are:
  965. **NoIPv4Traffic**;;
  966. Tell exits to not connect to IPv4 addresses in response to SOCKS
  967. requests on this connection.
  968. **IPv6Traffic**;;
  969. Tell exits to allow IPv6 addresses in response to SOCKS requests on
  970. this connection, so long as SOCKS5 is in use. (SOCKS4 can't handle
  971. IPv6.)
  972. **PreferIPv6**;;
  973. Tells exits that, if a host has both an IPv4 and an IPv6 address,
  974. we would prefer to connect to it via IPv6. (IPv4 is the default.)
  975. **NoDNSRequest**;;
  976. Do not ask exits to resolve DNS addresses in SOCKS5 requests. Tor will
  977. connect to IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses (if IPv6Traffic is set) and
  978. .onion addresses.
  979. **NoOnionTraffic**;;
  980. Do not connect to .onion addresses in SOCKS5 requests.
  981. **OnionTrafficOnly**;;
  982. Tell the tor client to only connect to .onion addresses in response to
  983. SOCKS5 requests on this connection. This is equivalent to NoDNSRequest,
  984. NoIPv4Traffic, NoIPv6Traffic. The corresponding NoOnionTrafficOnly
  985. flag is not supported.
  986. **CacheIPv4DNS**;;
  987. Tells the client to remember IPv4 DNS answers we receive from exit
  988. nodes via this connection. (On by default.)
  989. **CacheIPv6DNS**;;
  990. Tells the client to remember IPv6 DNS answers we receive from exit
  991. nodes via this connection.
  992. **GroupWritable**;;
  993. Unix domain sockets only: makes the socket get created as
  994. group-writable.
  995. **WorldWritable**;;
  996. Unix domain sockets only: makes the socket get created as
  997. world-writable.
  998. **CacheDNS**;;
  999. Tells the client to remember all DNS answers we receive from exit
  1000. nodes via this connection.
  1001. **UseIPv4Cache**;;
  1002. Tells the client to use any cached IPv4 DNS answers we have when making
  1003. requests via this connection. (NOTE: This option, along UseIPv6Cache
  1004. and UseDNSCache, can harm your anonymity, and probably
  1005. won't help performance as much as you might expect. Use with care!)
  1006. **UseIPv6Cache**;;
  1007. Tells the client to use any cached IPv6 DNS answers we have when making
  1008. requests via this connection.
  1009. **UseDNSCache**;;
  1010. Tells the client to use any cached DNS answers we have when making
  1011. requests via this connection.
  1012. **PreferIPv6Automap**;;
  1013. When serving a hostname lookup request on this port that
  1014. should get automapped (according to AutomapHostsOnResolve),
  1015. if we could return either an IPv4 or an IPv6 answer, prefer
  1016. an IPv6 answer. (On by default.)
  1017. **PreferSOCKSNoAuth**;;
  1018. Ordinarily, when an application offers both "username/password
  1019. authentication" and "no authentication" to Tor via SOCKS5, Tor
  1020. selects username/password authentication so that IsolateSOCKSAuth can
  1021. work. This can confuse some applications, if they offer a
  1022. username/password combination then get confused when asked for
  1023. one. You can disable this behavior, so that Tor will select "No
  1024. authentication" when IsolateSOCKSAuth is disabled, or when this
  1025. option is set.
  1026. [[SocksPortFlagsMisc]]::
  1027. Flags are processed left to right. If flags conflict, the last flag on the
  1028. line is used, and all earlier flags are ignored. No error is issued for
  1029. conflicting flags.
  1030. [[SocksPolicy]] **SocksPolicy** __policy__,__policy__,__...__::
  1031. Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the
  1032. SocksPort and DNSPort ports. The policies have the same form as exit
  1033. policies below, except that port specifiers are ignored. Any address
  1034. not matched by some entry in the policy is accepted.
  1035. [[SocksTimeout]] **SocksTimeout** __NUM__::
  1036. Let a socks connection wait NUM seconds handshaking, and NUM seconds
  1037. unattached waiting for an appropriate circuit, before we fail it. (Default:
  1038. 2 minutes)
  1039. [[TokenBucketRefillInterval]] **TokenBucketRefillInterval** __NUM__ [**msec**|**second**]::
  1040. Set the refill interval of Tor's token bucket to NUM milliseconds.
  1041. NUM must be between 1 and 1000, inclusive. Note that the configured
  1042. bandwidth limits are still expressed in bytes per second: this
  1043. option only affects the frequency with which Tor checks to see whether
  1044. previously exhausted connections may read again.
  1045. Can not be changed while tor is running. (Default: 100 msec)
  1046. [[TrackHostExits]] **TrackHostExits** __host__,__.domain__,__...__::
  1047. For each value in the comma separated list, Tor will track recent
  1048. connections to hosts that match this value and attempt to reuse the same
  1049. exit node for each. If the value is prepended with a \'.\', it is treated as
  1050. matching an entire domain. If one of the values is just a \'.', it means
  1051. match everything. This option is useful if you frequently connect to sites
  1052. that will expire all your authentication cookies (i.e. log you out) if
  1053. your IP address changes. Note that this option does have the disadvantage
  1054. of making it more clear that a given history is associated with a single
  1055. user. However, most people who would wish to observe this will observe it
  1056. through cookies or other protocol-specific means anyhow.
  1057. [[TrackHostExitsExpire]] **TrackHostExitsExpire** __NUM__::
  1058. Since exit servers go up and down, it is desirable to expire the
  1059. association between host and exit server after NUM seconds. The default is
  1060. 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
  1061. [[UpdateBridgesFromAuthority]] **UpdateBridgesFromAuthority** **0**|**1**::
  1062. When set (along with UseBridges), Tor will try to fetch bridge descriptors
  1063. from the configured bridge authorities when feasible. It will fall back to
  1064. a direct request if the authority responds with a 404. (Default: 0)
  1065. [[UseBridges]] **UseBridges** **0**|**1**::
  1066. When set, Tor will fetch descriptors for each bridge listed in the "Bridge"
  1067. config lines, and use these relays as both entry guards and directory
  1068. guards. (Default: 0)
  1069. [[UseEntryGuards]] **UseEntryGuards** **0**|**1**::
  1070. If this option is set to 1, we pick a few long-term entry servers, and try
  1071. to stick with them. This is desirable because constantly changing servers
  1072. increases the odds that an adversary who owns some servers will observe a
  1073. fraction of your paths. Entry Guards can not be used by Directory
  1074. Authorities, Single Onion Services, and Tor2web clients. In these cases,
  1075. the this option is ignored. (Default: 1)
  1076. [[GuardfractionFile]] **GuardfractionFile** __FILENAME__::
  1077. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the location of the
  1078. guardfraction file which contains information about how long relays
  1079. have been guards. (Default: unset)
  1080. [[UseGuardFraction]] **UseGuardFraction** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1081. This torrc option specifies whether clients should use the
  1082. guardfraction information found in the consensus during path
  1083. selection. If it's set to 'auto', clients will do what the
  1084. UseGuardFraction consensus parameter tells them to do. (Default: auto)
  1085. [[NumEntryGuards]] **NumEntryGuards** __NUM__::
  1086. If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers
  1087. as long-term entries for our circuits. If NUM is 0, we try to learn the
  1088. number from the guard-n-primary-guards-to-use consensus parameter, and
  1089. default to 1 if the consensus parameter isn't set. (Default: 0)
  1090. [[NumDirectoryGuards]] **NumDirectoryGuards** __NUM__::
  1091. If UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards is enabled, we try to make sure we have
  1092. at least NUM routers to use as directory guards. If this option is set to
  1093. 0, use the value from the guard-n-primary-dir-guards-to-use consensus
  1094. parameter, and default to 3 if the consensus parameter isn't set.
  1095. (Default: 0)
  1096. [[GuardLifetime]] **GuardLifetime** __N__ **days**|**weeks**|**months**::
  1097. If nonzero, and UseEntryGuards is set, minimum time to keep a guard before
  1098. picking a new one. If zero, we use the GuardLifetime parameter from the
  1099. consensus directory. No value here may be less than 1 month or greater
  1100. than 5 years; out-of-range values are clamped. (Default: 0)
  1101. [[SafeSocks]] **SafeSocks** **0**|**1**::
  1102. When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that
  1103. use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an IP
  1104. address, meaning the application is doing a DNS resolve first.
  1105. Specifically, these are socks4 and socks5 when not doing remote DNS.
  1106. (Default: 0)
  1107. [[TestSocks]] **TestSocks** **0**|**1**::
  1108. When this option is enabled, Tor will make a notice-level log entry for
  1109. each connection to the Socks port indicating whether the request used a
  1110. safe socks protocol or an unsafe one (see above entry on SafeSocks). This
  1111. helps to determine whether an application using Tor is possibly leaking
  1112. DNS requests. (Default: 0)
  1113. [[VirtualAddrNetworkIPv4]] **VirtualAddrNetworkIPv4** __Address__/__bits__ +
  1114. [[VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6]] **VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6** [__Address__]/__bits__::
  1115. When Tor needs to assign a virtual (unused) address because of a MAPADDRESS
  1116. command from the controller or the AutomapHostsOnResolve feature, Tor
  1117. picks an unassigned address from this range. (Defaults:
  1118. 127.192.0.0/10 and [FE80::]/10 respectively.) +
  1119. +
  1120. When providing proxy server service to a network of computers using a tool
  1121. like dns-proxy-tor, change the IPv4 network to "10.192.0.0/10" or
  1122. "172.16.0.0/12" and change the IPv6 network to "[FC00::]/7".
  1123. The default **VirtualAddrNetwork** address ranges on a
  1124. properly configured machine will route to the loopback or link-local
  1125. interface. The maximum number of bits for the network prefix is set to 104
  1126. for IPv6 and 16 for IPv4. However, a wider network - smaller prefix length
  1127. - is preferable since it reduces the chances for an attacker to guess the
  1128. used IP. For local use, no change to the default VirtualAddrNetwork setting
  1129. is needed.
  1130. [[AllowNonRFC953Hostnames]] **AllowNonRFC953Hostnames** **0**|**1**::
  1131. When this option is disabled, Tor blocks hostnames containing illegal
  1132. characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an exit node to be
  1133. resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve URLs and so on.
  1134. (Default: 0)
  1135. [[AllowDotExit]] **AllowDotExit** **0**|**1**::
  1136. If enabled, we convert "www.google.com.foo.exit" addresses on the
  1137. SocksPort/TransPort/NATDPort into "www.google.com" addresses that exit from
  1138. the node "foo". Disabled by default since attacking websites and exit
  1139. relays can use it to manipulate your path selection. (Default: 0)
  1140. [[TransPort]] **TransPort** \['address':]__port__|**auto** [_isolation flags_]::
  1141. Open this port to listen for transparent proxy connections. Set this to
  1142. 0 if you don't want to allow transparent proxy connections. Set the port
  1143. to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be
  1144. specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. See
  1145. SOCKSPort for an explanation of isolation flags. +
  1146. +
  1147. TransPort requires OS support for transparent proxies, such as BSDs' pf or
  1148. Linux's IPTables. If you're planning to use Tor as a transparent proxy for
  1149. a network, you'll want to examine and change VirtualAddrNetwork from the
  1150. default setting. (Default: 0)
  1151. [[TransProxyType]] **TransProxyType** **default**|**TPROXY**|**ipfw**|**pf-divert**::
  1152. TransProxyType may only be enabled when there is transparent proxy listener
  1153. enabled. +
  1154. +
  1155. Set this to "TPROXY" if you wish to be able to use the TPROXY Linux module
  1156. to transparently proxy connections that are configured using the TransPort
  1157. option. Detailed information on how to configure the TPROXY
  1158. feature can be found in the Linux kernel source tree in the file
  1159. Documentation/networking/tproxy.txt. +
  1160. +
  1161. Set this option to "ipfw" to use the FreeBSD ipfw interface. +
  1162. +
  1163. On *BSD operating systems when using pf, set this to "pf-divert" to take
  1164. advantage of +divert-to+ rules, which do not modify the packets like
  1165. +rdr-to+ rules do. Detailed information on how to configure pf to use
  1166. +divert-to+ rules can be found in the pf.conf(5) manual page. On OpenBSD,
  1167. +divert-to+ is available to use on versions greater than or equal to
  1168. OpenBSD 4.4. +
  1169. +
  1170. Set this to "default", or leave it unconfigured, to use regular IPTables
  1171. on Linux, or to use pf +rdr-to+ rules on *BSD systems. +
  1172. +
  1173. (Default: "default".)
  1174. [[NATDPort]] **NATDPort** \['address':]__port__|**auto** [_isolation flags_]::
  1175. Open this port to listen for connections from old versions of ipfw (as
  1176. included in old versions of FreeBSD, etc) using the NATD protocol.
  1177. Use 0 if you don't want to allow NATD connections. Set the port
  1178. to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This directive can be
  1179. specified multiple times to bind to multiple addresses/ports. See
  1180. SocksPort for an explanation of isolation flags. +
  1181. +
  1182. This option is only for people who cannot use TransPort. (Default: 0)
  1183. [[AutomapHostsOnResolve]] **AutomapHostsOnResolve** **0**|**1**::
  1184. When this option is enabled, and we get a request to resolve an address
  1185. that ends with one of the suffixes in **AutomapHostsSuffixes**, we map an
  1186. unused virtual address to that address, and return the new virtual address.
  1187. This is handy for making ".onion" addresses work with applications that
  1188. resolve an address and then connect to it. (Default: 0)
  1189. [[AutomapHostsSuffixes]] **AutomapHostsSuffixes** __SUFFIX__,__SUFFIX__,__...__::
  1190. A comma-separated list of suffixes to use with **AutomapHostsOnResolve**.
  1191. The "." suffix is equivalent to "all addresses." (Default: .exit,.onion).
  1192. [[DNSPort]] **DNSPort** \['address':]__port__|**auto** [_isolation flags_]::
  1193. If non-zero, open this port to listen for UDP DNS requests, and resolve
  1194. them anonymously. This port only handles A, AAAA, and PTR requests---it
  1195. doesn't handle arbitrary DNS request types. Set the port to "auto" to
  1196. have Tor pick a port for
  1197. you. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
  1198. addresses/ports. See SocksPort for an explanation of isolation
  1199. flags. (Default: 0)
  1200. [[ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses]] **ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses** **0**|**1**::
  1201. If true, Tor does not believe any anonymously retrieved DNS answer that
  1202. tells it that an address resolves to an internal address (like 127.0.0.1 or
  1203. 192.168.0.1). This option prevents certain browser-based attacks; don't
  1204. turn it off unless you know what you're doing. (Default: 1)
  1205. [[ClientRejectInternalAddresses]] **ClientRejectInternalAddresses** **0**|**1**::
  1206. If true, Tor does not try to fulfill requests to connect to an internal
  1207. address (like 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1) __unless a exit node is
  1208. specifically requested__ (for example, via a .exit hostname, or a
  1209. controller request). If true, multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the
  1210. local network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. (Default: 1)
  1211. [[DownloadExtraInfo]] **DownloadExtraInfo** **0**|**1**::
  1212. If true, Tor downloads and caches "extra-info" documents. These documents
  1213. contain information about servers other than the information in their
  1214. regular server descriptors. Tor does not use this information for anything
  1215. itself; to save bandwidth, leave this option turned off. (Default: 0)
  1216. [[WarnPlaintextPorts]] **WarnPlaintextPorts** __port__,__port__,__...__::
  1217. Tells Tor to issue a warnings whenever the user tries to make an anonymous
  1218. connection to one of these ports. This option is designed to alert users
  1219. to services that risk sending passwords in the clear. (Default:
  1220. 23,109,110,143)
  1221. [[RejectPlaintextPorts]] **RejectPlaintextPorts** __port__,__port__,__...__::
  1222. Like WarnPlaintextPorts, but instead of warning about risky port uses, Tor
  1223. will instead refuse to make the connection. (Default: None)
  1224. [[OptimisticData]] **OptimisticData** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1225. When this option is set, and Tor is using an exit node that supports
  1226. the feature, it will try optimistically to send data to the exit node
  1227. without waiting for the exit node to report whether the connection
  1228. succeeded. This can save a round-trip time for protocols like HTTP
  1229. where the client talks first. If OptimisticData is set to **auto**,
  1230. Tor will look at the UseOptimisticData parameter in the networkstatus.
  1231. (Default: auto)
  1232. [[Tor2webMode]] **Tor2webMode** **0**|**1**::
  1233. When this option is set, Tor connects to hidden services
  1234. **non-anonymously**. This option also disables client connections to
  1235. non-hidden-service hostnames through Tor. It **must only** be used when
  1236. running a tor2web Hidden Service web proxy.
  1237. To enable this option the compile time flag --enable-tor2web-mode must be
  1238. specified. Since Tor2webMode is non-anonymous, you can not run an
  1239. anonymous Hidden Service on a tor version compiled with Tor2webMode.
  1240. (Default: 0)
  1241. [[Tor2webRendezvousPoints]] **Tor2webRendezvousPoints** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  1242. A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and
  1243. address patterns of nodes that are allowed to be used as RPs
  1244. in HS circuits; any other nodes will not be used as RPs.
  1245. (Example:
  1246. Tor2webRendezvousPoints Fastyfasty, ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234CDEF5678ABCD1234, \{cc}, 255.254.0.0/8) +
  1247. +
  1248. This feature can only be used if Tor2webMode is also enabled. +
  1249. +
  1250. ExcludeNodes have higher priority than Tor2webRendezvousPoints,
  1251. which means that nodes specified in ExcludeNodes will not be
  1252. picked as RPs. +
  1253. +
  1254. If no nodes in Tor2webRendezvousPoints are currently available for
  1255. use, Tor will choose a random node when building HS circuits.
  1256. [[UseMicrodescriptors]] **UseMicrodescriptors** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1257. Microdescriptors are a smaller version of the information that Tor needs
  1258. in order to build its circuits. Using microdescriptors makes Tor clients
  1259. download less directory information, thus saving bandwidth. Directory
  1260. caches need to fetch regular descriptors and microdescriptors, so this
  1261. option doesn't save any bandwidth for them. If this option is set to
  1262. "auto" (recommended) then it is on for all clients that do not set
  1263. FetchUselessDescriptors. (Default: auto)
  1264. [[PathBiasCircThreshold]] **PathBiasCircThreshold** __NUM__ +
  1265. [[PathBiasNoticeRate]] **PathBiasNoticeRate** __NUM__ +
  1266. [[PathBiasWarnRate]] **PathBiasWarnRate** __NUM__ +
  1267. [[PathBiasExtremeRate]] **PathBiasExtremeRate** __NUM__ +
  1268. [[PathBiasDropGuards]] **PathBiasDropGuards** __NUM__ +
  1269. [[PathBiasScaleThreshold]] **PathBiasScaleThreshold** __NUM__::
  1270. These options override the default behavior of Tor's (**currently
  1271. experimental**) path bias detection algorithm. To try to find broken or
  1272. misbehaving guard nodes, Tor looks for nodes where more than a certain
  1273. fraction of circuits through that guard fail to get built. +
  1274. +
  1275. The PathBiasCircThreshold option controls how many circuits we need to build
  1276. through a guard before we make these checks. The PathBiasNoticeRate,
  1277. PathBiasWarnRate and PathBiasExtremeRate options control what fraction of
  1278. circuits must succeed through a guard so we won't write log messages.
  1279. If less than PathBiasExtremeRate circuits succeed *and* PathBiasDropGuards
  1280. is set to 1, we disable use of that guard. +
  1281. +
  1282. When we have seen more than PathBiasScaleThreshold
  1283. circuits through a guard, we scale our observations by 0.5 (governed by
  1284. the consensus) so that new observations don't get swamped by old ones. +
  1285. +
  1286. By default, or if a negative value is provided for one of these options,
  1287. Tor uses reasonable defaults from the networkstatus consensus document.
  1288. If no defaults are available there, these options default to 150, .70,
  1289. .50, .30, 0, and 300 respectively.
  1290. [[PathBiasUseThreshold]] **PathBiasUseThreshold** __NUM__ +
  1291. [[PathBiasNoticeUseRate]] **PathBiasNoticeUseRate** __NUM__ +
  1292. [[PathBiasExtremeUseRate]] **PathBiasExtremeUseRate** __NUM__ +
  1293. [[PathBiasScaleUseThreshold]] **PathBiasScaleUseThreshold** __NUM__::
  1294. Similar to the above options, these options override the default behavior
  1295. of Tor's (**currently experimental**) path use bias detection algorithm. +
  1296. +
  1297. Where as the path bias parameters govern thresholds for successfully
  1298. building circuits, these four path use bias parameters govern thresholds
  1299. only for circuit usage. Circuits which receive no stream usage
  1300. are not counted by this detection algorithm. A used circuit is considered
  1301. successful if it is capable of carrying streams or otherwise receiving
  1302. well-formed responses to RELAY cells. +
  1303. +
  1304. By default, or if a negative value is provided for one of these options,
  1305. Tor uses reasonable defaults from the networkstatus consensus document.
  1306. If no defaults are available there, these options default to 20, .80,
  1307. .60, and 100, respectively.
  1308. [[ClientUseIPv4]] **ClientUseIPv4** **0**|**1**::
  1309. If this option is set to 0, Tor will avoid connecting to directory servers
  1310. and entry nodes over IPv4. Note that clients with an IPv4
  1311. address in a **Bridge**, proxy, or pluggable transport line will try
  1312. connecting over IPv4 even if **ClientUseIPv4** is set to 0. (Default: 1)
  1313. [[ClientUseIPv6]] **ClientUseIPv6** **0**|**1**::
  1314. If this option is set to 1, Tor might connect to directory servers or
  1315. entry nodes over IPv6. Note that clients configured with an IPv6 address
  1316. in a **Bridge**, proxy, or pluggable transport line will try connecting
  1317. over IPv6 even if **ClientUseIPv6** is set to 0. (Default: 0)
  1318. [[ClientPreferIPv6DirPort]] **ClientPreferIPv6DirPort** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1319. If this option is set to 1, Tor prefers a directory port with an IPv6
  1320. address over one with IPv4, for direct connections, if a given directory
  1321. server has both. (Tor also prefers an IPv6 DirPort if IPv4Client is set to
  1322. 0.) If this option is set to auto, clients prefer IPv4. Other things may
  1323. influence the choice. This option breaks a tie to the favor of IPv6.
  1324. (Default: auto)
  1325. [[ClientPreferIPv6ORPort]] **ClientPreferIPv6ORPort** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1326. If this option is set to 1, Tor prefers an OR port with an IPv6
  1327. address over one with IPv4 if a given entry node has both. (Tor also
  1328. prefers an IPv6 ORPort if IPv4Client is set to 0.) If this option is set
  1329. to auto, Tor bridge clients prefer the configured bridge address, and
  1330. other clients prefer IPv4. Other things may influence the choice. This
  1331. option breaks a tie to the favor of IPv6. (Default: auto)
  1332. [[PathsNeededToBuildCircuits]] **PathsNeededToBuildCircuits** __NUM__::
  1333. Tor clients don't build circuits for user traffic until they know
  1334. about enough of the network so that they could potentially construct
  1335. enough of the possible paths through the network. If this option
  1336. is set to a fraction between 0.25 and 0.95, Tor won't build circuits
  1337. until it has enough descriptors or microdescriptors to construct
  1338. that fraction of possible paths. Note that setting this option too low
  1339. can make your Tor client less anonymous, and setting it too high can
  1340. prevent your Tor client from bootstrapping. If this option is negative,
  1341. Tor will use a default value chosen by the directory authorities. If the
  1342. directory authorities do not choose a value, Tor will default to 0.6.
  1343. (Default: -1.)
  1344. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityDownloadSchedule]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  1345. Schedule for when clients should download consensuses from authorities
  1346. if they are bootstrapping (that is, they don't have a usable, reasonably
  1347. live consensus). Only used by clients fetching from a list of fallback
  1348. directory mirrors. This schedule is advanced by (potentially concurrent)
  1349. connection attempts, unlike other schedules, which are advanced by
  1350. connection failures. (Default: 10, 11, 3600, 10800, 25200, 54000,
  1351. 111600, 262800)
  1352. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusFallbackDownloadSchedule]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusFallbackDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  1353. Schedule for when clients should download consensuses from fallback
  1354. directory mirrors if they are bootstrapping (that is, they don't have a
  1355. usable, reasonably live consensus). Only used by clients fetching from a
  1356. list of fallback directory mirrors. This schedule is advanced by
  1357. (potentially concurrent) connection attempts, unlike other schedules,
  1358. which are advanced by connection failures. (Default: 0, 1, 4, 11, 3600,
  1359. 10800, 25200, 54000, 111600, 262800)
  1360. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyDownloadSchedule]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  1361. Schedule for when clients should download consensuses from authorities
  1362. if they are bootstrapping (that is, they don't have a usable, reasonably
  1363. live consensus). Only used by clients which don't have or won't fetch
  1364. from a list of fallback directory mirrors. This schedule is advanced by
  1365. (potentially concurrent) connection attempts, unlike other schedules,
  1366. which are advanced by connection failures. (Default: 0, 3, 7, 3600,
  1367. 10800, 25200, 54000, 111600, 262800)
  1368. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusMaxDownloadTries]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  1369. Try this many times to download a consensus while bootstrapping using
  1370. fallback directory mirrors before giving up. (Default: 7)
  1371. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyMaxDownloadTries]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  1372. Try this many times to download a consensus while bootstrapping using
  1373. authorities before giving up. (Default: 4)
  1374. [[ClientBootstrapConsensusMaxInProgressTries]] **ClientBootstrapConsensusMaxInProgressTries** __NUM__::
  1375. Try this many simultaneous connections to download a consensus before
  1376. waiting for one to complete, timeout, or error out. (Default: 4)
  1377. SERVER OPTIONS
  1378. --------------
  1379. The following options are useful only for servers (that is, if ORPort
  1380. is non-zero):
  1381. [[Address]] **Address** __address__::
  1382. The IP address or fully qualified domain name of this server (e.g.
  1383. moria.mit.edu). You can leave this unset, and Tor will guess your IP
  1384. address. This IP address is the one used to tell clients and other
  1385. servers where to find your Tor server; it doesn't affect the IP that your
  1386. Tor client binds to. To bind to a different address, use the
  1387. *ListenAddress and OutboundBindAddress options.
  1388. [[AssumeReachable]] **AssumeReachable** **0**|**1**::
  1389. This option is used when bootstrapping a new Tor network. If set to 1,
  1390. don't do self-reachability testing; just upload your server descriptor
  1391. immediately. If **AuthoritativeDirectory** is also set, this option
  1392. instructs the dirserver to bypass remote reachability testing too and list
  1393. all connected servers as running.
  1394. [[BridgeRelay]] **BridgeRelay** **0**|**1**::
  1395. Sets the relay to act as a "bridge" with respect to relaying connections
  1396. from bridge users to the Tor network. It mainly causes Tor to publish a
  1397. server descriptor to the bridge database, rather than
  1398. to the public directory authorities.
  1399. [[ContactInfo]] **ContactInfo** __email_address__::
  1400. Administrative contact information for this relay or bridge. This line
  1401. can be used to contact you if your relay or bridge is misconfigured or
  1402. something else goes wrong. Note that we archive and publish all
  1403. descriptors containing these lines and that Google indexes them, so
  1404. spammers might also collect them. You may want to obscure the fact
  1405. that it's an email address and/or generate a new address for this
  1406. purpose.
  1407. [[ExitRelay]] **ExitRelay** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1408. Tells Tor whether to run as an exit relay. If Tor is running as a
  1409. non-bridge server, and ExitRelay is set to 1, then Tor allows traffic to
  1410. exit according to the ExitPolicy option (or the default ExitPolicy if
  1411. none is specified). +
  1412. +
  1413. If ExitRelay is set to 0, no traffic is allowed to
  1414. exit, and the ExitPolicy option is ignored. +
  1415. +
  1416. If ExitRelay is set to "auto", then Tor behaves as if it were set to 1, but
  1417. warns the user if this would cause traffic to exit. In a future version,
  1418. the default value will be 0. (Default: auto)
  1419. [[ExitPolicy]] **ExitPolicy** __policy__,__policy__,__...__::
  1420. Set an exit policy for this server. Each policy is of the form
  1421. "**accept[6]**|**reject[6]** __ADDR__[/__MASK__][:__PORT__]". If /__MASK__ is
  1422. omitted then this policy just applies to the host given. Instead of giving
  1423. a host or network you can also use "\*" to denote the universe (0.0.0.0/0
  1424. and ::/128), or \*4 to denote all IPv4 addresses, and \*6 to denote all
  1425. IPv6 addresses.
  1426. __PORT__ can be a single port number, an interval of ports
  1427. "__FROM_PORT__-__TO_PORT__", or "\*". If __PORT__ is omitted, that means
  1428. "\*". +
  1429. +
  1430. For example, "accept 18.7.22.69:\*,reject 18.0.0.0/8:\*,accept \*:\*" would
  1431. reject any IPv4 traffic destined for MIT except for web.mit.edu, and accept
  1432. any other IPv4 or IPv6 traffic. +
  1433. +
  1434. Tor also allows IPv6 exit policy entries. For instance, "reject6 [FC00::]/7:\*"
  1435. rejects all destinations that share 7 most significant bit prefix with
  1436. address FC00::. Respectively, "accept6 [C000::]/3:\*" accepts all destinations
  1437. that share 3 most significant bit prefix with address C000::. +
  1438. +
  1439. accept6 and reject6 only produce IPv6 exit policy entries. Using an IPv4
  1440. address with accept6 or reject6 is ignored and generates a warning.
  1441. accept/reject allows either IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. Use \*4 as an IPv4
  1442. wildcard address, and \*6 as an IPv6 wildcard address. accept/reject *
  1443. expands to matching IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard address rules. +
  1444. +
  1445. To specify all IPv4 and IPv6 internal and link-local networks (including
  1446. 0.0.0.0/8, 169.254.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8,
  1447. 172.16.0.0/12, [::]/8, [FC00::]/7, [FE80::]/10, [FEC0::]/10, [FF00::]/8,
  1448. and [::]/127), you can use the "private" alias instead of an address.
  1449. ("private" always produces rules for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, even when
  1450. used with accept6/reject6.) +
  1451. +
  1452. Private addresses are rejected by default (at the beginning of your exit
  1453. policy), along with any configured primary public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
  1454. These private addresses are rejected unless you set the
  1455. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate config option to 0. For example, once you've done
  1456. that, you could allow HTTP to 127.0.0.1 and block all other connections to
  1457. internal networks with "accept 127.0.0.1:80,reject private:\*", though that
  1458. may also allow connections to your own computer that are addressed to its
  1459. public (external) IP address. See RFC 1918 and RFC 3330 for more details
  1460. about internal and reserved IP address space. See
  1461. ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces if you want to block every address on the
  1462. relay, even those that aren't advertised in the descriptor. +
  1463. +
  1464. This directive can be specified multiple times so you don't have to put it
  1465. all on one line. +
  1466. +
  1467. Policies are considered first to last, and the first match wins. If you
  1468. want to allow the same ports on IPv4 and IPv6, write your rules using
  1469. accept/reject \*. If you want to allow different ports on IPv4 and IPv6,
  1470. write your IPv6 rules using accept6/reject6 \*6, and your IPv4 rules using
  1471. accept/reject \*4. If you want to \_replace_ the default exit policy, end
  1472. your exit policy with either a reject \*:* or an accept \*:*. Otherwise,
  1473. you're \_augmenting_ (prepending to) the default exit policy. The default
  1474. exit policy is: +
  1475. reject *:25
  1476. reject *:119
  1477. reject *:135-139
  1478. reject *:445
  1479. reject *:563
  1480. reject *:1214
  1481. reject *:4661-4666
  1482. reject *:6346-6429
  1483. reject *:6699
  1484. reject *:6881-6999
  1485. accept *:*
  1486. [[ExitPolicyDefault]]::
  1487. Since the default exit policy uses accept/reject *, it applies to both
  1488. IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
  1489. [[ExitPolicyRejectPrivate]] **ExitPolicyRejectPrivate** **0**|**1**::
  1490. Reject all private (local) networks, along with the relay's advertised
  1491. public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, at the beginning of your exit policy.
  1492. See above entry on ExitPolicy.
  1493. (Default: 1)
  1494. [[ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces]] **ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces** **0**|**1**::
  1495. Reject all IPv4 and IPv6 addresses that the relay knows about, at the
  1496. beginning of your exit policy. This includes any OutboundBindAddress, the
  1497. bind addresses of any port options, such as ControlPort or DNSPort, and any
  1498. public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses on any interface on the relay. (If IPv6Exit
  1499. is not set, all IPv6 addresses will be rejected anyway.)
  1500. See above entry on ExitPolicy.
  1501. This option is off by default, because it lists all public relay IP
  1502. addresses in the ExitPolicy, even those relay operators might prefer not
  1503. to disclose.
  1504. (Default: 0)
  1505. [[IPv6Exit]] **IPv6Exit** **0**|**1**::
  1506. If set, and we are an exit node, allow clients to use us for IPv6
  1507. traffic. (Default: 0)
  1508. [[MaxOnionQueueDelay]] **MaxOnionQueueDelay** __NUM__ [**msec**|**second**]::
  1509. If we have more onionskins queued for processing than we can process in
  1510. this amount of time, reject new ones. (Default: 1750 msec)
  1511. [[MyFamily]] **MyFamily** __fingerprint__,__fingerprint__,...::
  1512. Declare that this Tor relay is controlled or administered by a group or
  1513. organization identical or similar to that of the other relays, defined by
  1514. their (possibly $-prefixed) identity fingerprints.
  1515. This option can be repeated many times, for
  1516. convenience in defining large families: all fingerprints in all MyFamily
  1517. lines are merged into one list.
  1518. When two relays both declare that they are in the
  1519. same \'family', Tor clients will not use them in the same circuit. (Each
  1520. relay only needs to list the other servers in its family; it doesn't need to
  1521. list itself, but it won't hurt if it does.) Do not list any bridge relay as it would
  1522. compromise its concealment. +
  1523. +
  1524. When listing a node, it's better to list it by fingerprint than by
  1525. nickname: fingerprints are more reliable.
  1526. [[Nickname]] **Nickname** __name__::
  1527. Set the server's nickname to \'name'. Nicknames must be between 1 and 19
  1528. characters inclusive, and must contain only the characters [a-zA-Z0-9].
  1529. [[NumCPUs]] **NumCPUs** __num__::
  1530. How many processes to use at once for decrypting onionskins and other
  1531. parallelizable operations. If this is set to 0, Tor will try to detect
  1532. how many CPUs you have, defaulting to 1 if it can't tell. (Default: 0)
  1533. [[ORPort]] **ORPort** \['address':]__PORT__|**auto** [_flags_]::
  1534. Advertise this port to listen for connections from Tor clients and
  1535. servers. This option is required to be a Tor server.
  1536. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. Set it to 0 to not
  1537. run an ORPort at all. This option can occur more than once. (Default: 0) +
  1538. +
  1539. Tor recognizes these flags on each ORPort:
  1540. **NoAdvertise**;;
  1541. By default, we bind to a port and tell our users about it. If
  1542. NoAdvertise is specified, we don't advertise, but listen anyway. This
  1543. can be useful if the port everybody will be connecting to (for
  1544. example, one that's opened on our firewall) is somewhere else.
  1545. **NoListen**;;
  1546. By default, we bind to a port and tell our users about it. If
  1547. NoListen is specified, we don't bind, but advertise anyway. This
  1548. can be useful if something else (for example, a firewall's port
  1549. forwarding configuration) is causing connections to reach us.
  1550. **IPv4Only**;;
  1551. If the address is absent, or resolves to both an IPv4 and an IPv6
  1552. address, only listen to the IPv4 address.
  1553. **IPv6Only**;;
  1554. If the address is absent, or resolves to both an IPv4 and an IPv6
  1555. address, only listen to the IPv6 address.
  1556. [[ORPortFlagsExclusive]]::
  1557. For obvious reasons, NoAdvertise and NoListen are mutually exclusive, and
  1558. IPv4Only and IPv6Only are mutually exclusive.
  1559. [[PortForwarding]] **PortForwarding** **0**|**1**::
  1560. Attempt to automatically forward the DirPort and ORPort on a NAT router
  1561. connecting this Tor server to the Internet. If set, Tor will try both
  1562. NAT-PMP (common on Apple routers) and UPnP (common on routers from other
  1563. manufacturers). (Default: 0)
  1564. [[PortForwardingHelper]] **PortForwardingHelper** __filename__|__pathname__::
  1565. If PortForwarding is set, use this executable to configure the forwarding.
  1566. If set to a filename, the system path will be searched for the executable.
  1567. If set to a path, only the specified path will be executed.
  1568. (Default: tor-fw-helper)
  1569. [[PublishServerDescriptor]] **PublishServerDescriptor** **0**|**1**|**v3**|**bridge**,**...**::
  1570. This option specifies which descriptors Tor will publish when acting as
  1571. a relay. You can
  1572. choose multiple arguments, separated by commas. +
  1573. +
  1574. If this option is set to 0, Tor will not publish its
  1575. descriptors to any directories. (This is useful if you're testing
  1576. out your server, or if you're using a Tor controller that handles directory
  1577. publishing for you.) Otherwise, Tor will publish its descriptors of all
  1578. type(s) specified. The default is "1",
  1579. which means "if running as a server, publish the
  1580. appropriate descriptors to the authorities".
  1581. [[ShutdownWaitLength]] **ShutdownWaitLength** __NUM__::
  1582. When we get a SIGINT and we're a server, we begin shutting down:
  1583. we close listeners and start refusing new circuits. After **NUM**
  1584. seconds, we exit. If we get a second SIGINT, we exit immediately.
  1585. (Default: 30 seconds)
  1586. [[SSLKeyLifetime]] **SSLKeyLifetime** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**::
  1587. When creating a link certificate for our outermost SSL handshake,
  1588. set its lifetime to this amount of time. If set to 0, Tor will choose
  1589. some reasonable random defaults. (Default: 0)
  1590. [[HeartbeatPeriod]] **HeartbeatPeriod** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**::
  1591. Log a heartbeat message every **HeartbeatPeriod** seconds. This is
  1592. a log level __notice__ message, designed to let you know your Tor
  1593. server is still alive and doing useful things. Settings this
  1594. to 0 will disable the heartbeat. Otherwise, it must be at least 30
  1595. minutes. (Default: 6 hours)
  1596. [[AccountingMax]] **AccountingMax** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  1597. Limits the max number of bytes sent and received within a set time period
  1598. using a given calculation rule (see: AccountingStart, AccountingRule).
  1599. Useful if you need to stay under a specific bandwidth. By default, the
  1600. number used for calculation is the max of either the bytes sent or
  1601. received. For example, with AccountingMax set to 1 GByte, a server
  1602. could send 900 MBytes and receive 800 MBytes and continue running.
  1603. It will only hibernate once one of the two reaches 1 GByte. This can
  1604. be changed to use the sum of the both bytes received and sent by setting
  1605. the AccountingRule option to "sum" (total bandwidth in/out). When the
  1606. number of bytes remaining gets low, Tor will stop accepting new connections
  1607. and circuits. When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate
  1608. until some time in the next accounting period. To prevent all servers
  1609. from waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point
  1610. in each period before waking up. If you have bandwidth cost issues,
  1611. enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since
  1612. it provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some
  1613. of the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are
  1614. always "available".
  1615. [[AccountingRule]] **AccountingRule** **sum**|**max**|**in**|**out**::
  1616. How we determine when our AccountingMax has been reached (when we
  1617. should hibernate) during a time interval. Set to "max" to calculate
  1618. using the higher of either the sent or received bytes (this is the
  1619. default functionality). Set to "sum" to calculate using the sent
  1620. plus received bytes. Set to "in" to calculate using only the
  1621. received bytes. Set to "out" to calculate using only the sent bytes.
  1622. (Default: max)
  1623. [[AccountingStart]] **AccountingStart** **day**|**week**|**month** [__day__] __HH:MM__::
  1624. Specify how long accounting periods last. If **month** is given, each
  1625. accounting period runs from the time __HH:MM__ on the __dayth__ day of one
  1626. month to the same day and time of the next. (The day must be between 1 and
  1627. 28.) If **week** is given, each accounting period runs from the time __HH:MM__
  1628. of the __dayth__ day of one week to the same day and time of the next week,
  1629. with Monday as day 1 and Sunday as day 7. If **day** is given, each
  1630. accounting period runs from the time __HH:MM__ each day to the same time on
  1631. the next day. All times are local, and given in 24-hour time. (Default:
  1632. "month 1 0:00")
  1633. [[RefuseUnknownExits]] **RefuseUnknownExits** **0**|**1**|**auto**::
  1634. Prevent nodes that don't appear in the consensus from exiting using this
  1635. relay. If the option is 1, we always block exit attempts from such
  1636. nodes; if it's 0, we never do, and if the option is "auto", then we do
  1637. whatever the authorities suggest in the consensus (and block if the consensus
  1638. is quiet on the issue). (Default: auto)
  1639. [[ServerDNSResolvConfFile]] **ServerDNSResolvConfFile** __filename__::
  1640. Overrides the default DNS configuration with the configuration in
  1641. __filename__. The file format is the same as the standard Unix
  1642. "**resolv.conf**" file (7). This option, like all other ServerDNS options,
  1643. only affects name lookups that your server does on behalf of clients.
  1644. (Defaults to use the system DNS configuration.)
  1645. [[ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig]] **ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig** **0**|**1**::
  1646. If this option is false, Tor exits immediately if there are problems
  1647. parsing the system DNS configuration or connecting to nameservers.
  1648. Otherwise, Tor continues to periodically retry the system nameservers until
  1649. it eventually succeeds. (Default: 1)
  1650. [[ServerDNSSearchDomains]] **ServerDNSSearchDomains** **0**|**1**::
  1651. If set to 1, then we will search for addresses in the local search domain.
  1652. For example, if this system is configured to believe it is in
  1653. "example.com", and a client tries to connect to "www", the client will be
  1654. connected to "www.example.com". This option only affects name lookups that
  1655. your server does on behalf of clients. (Default: 0)
  1656. [[ServerDNSDetectHijacking]] **ServerDNSDetectHijacking** **0**|**1**::
  1657. When this option is set to 1, we will test periodically to determine
  1658. whether our local nameservers have been configured to hijack failing DNS
  1659. requests (usually to an advertising site). If they are, we will attempt to
  1660. correct this. This option only affects name lookups that your server does
  1661. on behalf of clients. (Default: 1)
  1662. [[ServerDNSTestAddresses]] **ServerDNSTestAddresses** __address__,__address__,__...__::
  1663. When we're detecting DNS hijacking, make sure that these __valid__ addresses
  1664. aren't getting redirected. If they are, then our DNS is completely useless,
  1665. and we'll reset our exit policy to "reject \*:*". This option only affects
  1666. name lookups that your server does on behalf of clients. (Default:
  1667. "www.google.com, www.mit.edu, www.yahoo.com, www.slashdot.org")
  1668. [[ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Hostnames]] **ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Hostnames** **0**|**1**::
  1669. When this option is disabled, Tor does not try to resolve hostnames
  1670. containing illegal characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an
  1671. exit node to be resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve
  1672. URLs and so on. This option only affects name lookups that your server does
  1673. on behalf of clients. (Default: 0)
  1674. [[BridgeRecordUsageByCountry]] **BridgeRecordUsageByCountry** **0**|**1**::
  1675. When this option is enabled and BridgeRelay is also enabled, and we have
  1676. GeoIP data, Tor keeps a per-country count of how many client
  1677. addresses have contacted it so that it can help the bridge authority guess
  1678. which countries have blocked access to it. (Default: 1)
  1679. [[ServerDNSRandomizeCase]] **ServerDNSRandomizeCase** **0**|**1**::
  1680. When this option is set, Tor sets the case of each character randomly in
  1681. outgoing DNS requests, and makes sure that the case matches in DNS replies.
  1682. This so-called "0x20 hack" helps resist some types of DNS poisoning attack.
  1683. For more information, see "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through
  1684. 0x20-Bit Encoding". This option only affects name lookups that your server
  1685. does on behalf of clients. (Default: 1)
  1686. [[GeoIPFile]] **GeoIPFile** __filename__::
  1687. A filename containing IPv4 GeoIP data, for use with by-country statistics.
  1688. [[GeoIPv6File]] **GeoIPv6File** __filename__::
  1689. A filename containing IPv6 GeoIP data, for use with by-country statistics.
  1690. [[CellStatistics]] **CellStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1691. Relays only.
  1692. When this option is enabled, Tor collects statistics about cell
  1693. processing (i.e. mean time a cell is spending in a queue, mean
  1694. number of cells in a queue and mean number of processed cells per
  1695. circuit) and writes them into disk every 24 hours. Onion router
  1696. operators may use the statistics for performance monitoring.
  1697. If ExtraInfoStatistics is enabled, it will published as part of
  1698. extra-info document. (Default: 0)
  1699. [[PaddingStatistics]] **PaddingStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1700. Relays only.
  1701. When this option is enabled, Tor collects statistics for padding cells
  1702. sent and received by this relay, in addition to total cell counts.
  1703. These statistics are rounded, and omitted if traffic is low. This
  1704. information is important for load balancing decisions related to padding.
  1705. (Default: 1)
  1706. [[DirReqStatistics]] **DirReqStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1707. Relays and bridges only.
  1708. When this option is enabled, a Tor directory writes statistics on the
  1709. number and response time of network status requests to disk every 24
  1710. hours. Enables relay and bridge operators to monitor how much their
  1711. server is being used by clients to learn about Tor network.
  1712. If ExtraInfoStatistics is enabled, it will published as part of
  1713. extra-info document. (Default: 1)
  1714. [[EntryStatistics]] **EntryStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1715. Relays only.
  1716. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the number of
  1717. directly connecting clients to disk every 24 hours. Enables relay
  1718. operators to monitor how much inbound traffic that originates from
  1719. Tor clients passes through their server to go further down the
  1720. Tor network. If ExtraInfoStatistics is enabled, it will be published
  1721. as part of extra-info document. (Default: 0)
  1722. [[ExitPortStatistics]] **ExitPortStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1723. Exit relays only.
  1724. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the number of
  1725. relayed bytes and opened stream per exit port to disk every 24 hours.
  1726. Enables exit relay operators to measure and monitor amounts of traffic
  1727. that leaves Tor network through their exit node. If ExtraInfoStatistics
  1728. is enabled, it will be published as part of extra-info document.
  1729. (Default: 0)
  1730. [[ConnDirectionStatistics]] **ConnDirectionStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1731. Relays only.
  1732. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the amounts of
  1733. traffic it passes between itself and other relays to disk every 24
  1734. hours. Enables relay operators to monitor how much their relay is
  1735. being used as middle node in the circuit. If ExtraInfoStatistics is
  1736. enabled, it will be published as part of extra-info document.
  1737. (Default: 0)
  1738. [[HiddenServiceStatistics]] **HiddenServiceStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1739. Relays only.
  1740. When this option is enabled, a Tor relay writes obfuscated
  1741. statistics on its role as hidden-service directory, introduction
  1742. point, or rendezvous point to disk every 24 hours. If
  1743. ExtraInfoStatistics is also enabled, these statistics are further
  1744. published to the directory authorities. (Default: 1)
  1745. [[ExtraInfoStatistics]] **ExtraInfoStatistics** **0**|**1**::
  1746. When this option is enabled, Tor includes previously gathered statistics in
  1747. its extra-info documents that it uploads to the directory authorities.
  1748. (Default: 1)
  1749. [[ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses]] **ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses** **0**|**1**::
  1750. When this option is enabled, Tor will connect to relays on localhost,
  1751. RFC1918 addresses, and so on. In particular, Tor will make direct OR
  1752. connections, and Tor routers allow EXTEND requests, to these private
  1753. addresses. (Tor will always allow connections to bridges, proxies, and
  1754. pluggable transports configured on private addresses.) Enabling this
  1755. option can create security issues; you should probably leave it off.
  1756. (Default: 0)
  1757. [[MaxMemInQueues]] **MaxMemInQueues** __N__ **bytes**|**KB**|**MB**|**GB**::
  1758. This option configures a threshold above which Tor will assume that it
  1759. needs to stop queueing or buffering data because it's about to run out of
  1760. memory. If it hits this threshold, it will begin killing circuits until
  1761. it has recovered at least 10% of this memory. Do not set this option too
  1762. low, or your relay may be unreliable under load. This option only
  1763. affects some queues, so the actual process size will be larger than
  1764. this. If this option is set to 0, Tor will try to pick a reasonable
  1765. default based on your system's physical memory. (Default: 0)
  1766. [[DisableOOSCheck]] **DisableOOSCheck** **0**|**1**::
  1767. This option disables the code that closes connections when Tor notices
  1768. that it is running low on sockets. Right now, it is on by default,
  1769. since the existing out-of-sockets mechanism tends to kill OR connections
  1770. more than it should. (Default: 1)
  1771. [[SigningKeyLifetime]] **SigningKeyLifetime** __N__ **days**|**weeks**|**months**::
  1772. For how long should each Ed25519 signing key be valid? Tor uses a
  1773. permanent master identity key that can be kept offline, and periodically
  1774. generates new "signing" keys that it uses online. This option
  1775. configures their lifetime.
  1776. (Default: 30 days)
  1777. [[OfflineMasterKey]] **OfflineMasterKey** **0**|**1**::
  1778. If non-zero, the Tor relay will never generate or load its master secret
  1779. key. Instead, you'll have to use "tor --keygen" to manage the permanent
  1780. ed25519 master identity key, as well as the corresponding temporary
  1781. signing keys and certificates. (Default: 0)
  1782. DIRECTORY SERVER OPTIONS
  1783. ------------------------
  1784. The following options are useful only for directory servers. (Relays with
  1785. enough bandwidth automatically become directory servers; see DirCache for
  1786. details.)
  1787. [[DirPortFrontPage]] **DirPortFrontPage** __FILENAME__::
  1788. When this option is set, it takes an HTML file and publishes it as "/" on
  1789. the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a disclaimer without needing
  1790. to set up a separate webserver. There's a sample disclaimer in
  1791. contrib/operator-tools/tor-exit-notice.html.
  1792. [[DirPort]] **DirPort** \['address':]__PORT__|**auto** [_flags_]::
  1793. If this option is nonzero, advertise the directory service on this port.
  1794. Set it to "auto" to have Tor pick a port for you. This option can occur
  1795. more than once, but only one advertised DirPort is supported: all
  1796. but one DirPort must have the **NoAdvertise** flag set. (Default: 0) +
  1797. +
  1798. The same flags are supported here as are supported by ORPort.
  1799. [[DirPolicy]] **DirPolicy** __policy__,__policy__,__...__::
  1800. Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the
  1801. directory ports. The policies have the same form as exit policies above,
  1802. except that port specifiers are ignored. Any address not matched by
  1803. some entry in the policy is accepted.
  1804. [[DirCache]] **DirCache** **0**|**1**::
  1805. When this option is set, Tor caches all current directory documents and
  1806. accepts client requests for them. Setting DirPort is not required for this,
  1807. because clients connect via the ORPort by default. Setting either DirPort
  1808. or BridgeRelay and setting DirCache to 0 is not supported. (Default: 1)
  1809. DIRECTORY AUTHORITY SERVER OPTIONS
  1810. ----------------------------------
  1811. The following options enable operation as a directory authority, and
  1812. control how Tor behaves as a directory authority. You should not need
  1813. to adjust any of them if you're running a regular relay or exit server
  1814. on the public Tor network.
  1815. [[AuthoritativeDirectory]] **AuthoritativeDirectory** **0**|**1**::
  1816. When this option is set to 1, Tor operates as an authoritative directory
  1817. server. Instead of caching the directory, it generates its own list of
  1818. good servers, signs it, and sends that to the clients. Unless the clients
  1819. already have you listed as a trusted directory, you probably do not want
  1820. to set this option.
  1821. [[V3AuthoritativeDirectory]] **V3AuthoritativeDirectory** **0**|**1**::
  1822. When this option is set in addition to **AuthoritativeDirectory**, Tor
  1823. generates version 3 network statuses and serves descriptors, etc as
  1824. described in dir-spec.txt file of https://spec.torproject.org/[torspec]
  1825. (for Tor clients and servers running at least 0.2.0.x).
  1826. [[VersioningAuthoritativeDirectory]] **VersioningAuthoritativeDirectory** **0**|**1**::
  1827. When this option is set to 1, Tor adds information on which versions of
  1828. Tor are still believed safe for use to the published directory. Each
  1829. version 1 authority is automatically a versioning authority; version 2
  1830. authorities provide this service optionally. See **RecommendedVersions**,
  1831. **RecommendedClientVersions**, and **RecommendedServerVersions**.
  1832. [[RecommendedVersions]] **RecommendedVersions** __STRING__::
  1833. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be
  1834. safe. The list is included in each directory, and nodes which pull down the
  1835. directory learn whether they need to upgrade. This option can appear
  1836. multiple times: the values from multiple lines are spliced together. When
  1837. this is set then **VersioningAuthoritativeDirectory** should be set too.
  1838. [[RecommendedPackages]] **RecommendedPackages** __PACKAGENAME__ __VERSION__ __URL__ __DIGESTTYPE__**=**__DIGEST__ ::
  1839. Adds "package" line to the directory authority's vote. This information
  1840. is used to vote on the correct URL and digest for the released versions
  1841. of different Tor-related packages, so that the consensus can certify
  1842. them. This line may appear any number of times.
  1843. [[RecommendedClientVersions]] **RecommendedClientVersions** __STRING__::
  1844. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be
  1845. safe for clients to use. This information is included in version 2
  1846. directories. If this is not set then the value of **RecommendedVersions**
  1847. is used. When this is set then **VersioningAuthoritativeDirectory** should
  1848. be set too.
  1849. [[BridgeAuthoritativeDir]] **BridgeAuthoritativeDir** **0**|**1**::
  1850. When this option is set in addition to **AuthoritativeDirectory**, Tor
  1851. accepts and serves server descriptors, but it caches and serves the main
  1852. networkstatus documents rather than generating its own. (Default: 0)
  1853. [[MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2]] **MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**::
  1854. Minimum uptime of a v2 hidden service directory to be accepted as such by
  1855. authoritative directories. (Default: 25 hours)
  1856. [[RecommendedServerVersions]] **RecommendedServerVersions** __STRING__::
  1857. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed to be
  1858. safe for servers to use. This information is included in version 2
  1859. directories. If this is not set then the value of **RecommendedVersions**
  1860. is used. When this is set then **VersioningAuthoritativeDirectory** should
  1861. be set too.
  1862. [[ConsensusParams]] **ConsensusParams** __STRING__::
  1863. STRING is a space-separated list of key=value pairs that Tor will include
  1864. in the "params" line of its networkstatus vote.
  1865. [[DirAllowPrivateAddresses]] **DirAllowPrivateAddresses** **0**|**1**::
  1866. If set to 1, Tor will accept server descriptors with arbitrary "Address"
  1867. elements. Otherwise, if the address is not an IP address or is a private IP
  1868. address, it will reject the server descriptor. Additionally, Tor
  1869. will allow exit policies for private networks to fulfill Exit flag
  1870. requirements. (Default: 0)
  1871. [[AuthDirBadExit]] **AuthDirBadExit** __AddressPattern...__::
  1872. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1873. will be listed as bad exits in any network status document this authority
  1874. publishes, if **AuthDirListBadExits** is set. +
  1875. +
  1876. (The address pattern syntax here and in the options below
  1877. is the same as for exit policies, except that you don't need to say
  1878. "accept" or "reject", and ports are not needed.)
  1879. [[AuthDirInvalid]] **AuthDirInvalid** __AddressPattern...__::
  1880. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1881. will never be listed as "valid" in any network status document that this
  1882. authority publishes.
  1883. [[AuthDirReject]] **AuthDirReject** __AddressPattern__...::
  1884. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1885. will never be listed at all in any network status document that this
  1886. authority publishes, or accepted as an OR address in any descriptor
  1887. submitted for publication by this authority.
  1888. [[AuthDirBadExitCCs]] **AuthDirBadExitCCs** __CC__,... +
  1889. [[AuthDirInvalidCCs]] **AuthDirInvalidCCs** __CC__,... +
  1890. [[AuthDirRejectCCs]] **AuthDirRejectCCs** __CC__,...::
  1891. Authoritative directories only. These options contain a comma-separated
  1892. list of country codes such that any server in one of those country codes
  1893. will be marked as a bad exit/invalid for use, or rejected
  1894. entirely.
  1895. [[AuthDirListBadExits]] **AuthDirListBadExits** **0**|**1**::
  1896. Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, this directory has some
  1897. opinion about which nodes are unsuitable as exit nodes. (Do not set this to
  1898. 1 unless you plan to list non-functioning exits as bad; otherwise, you are
  1899. effectively voting in favor of every declared exit as an exit.)
  1900. [[AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr]] **AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr** __NUM__::
  1901. Authoritative directories only. The maximum number of servers that we will
  1902. list as acceptable on a single IP address. Set this to "0" for "no limit".
  1903. (Default: 2)
  1904. [[AuthDirFastGuarantee]] **AuthDirFastGuarantee** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  1905. Authoritative directories only. If non-zero, always vote the
  1906. Fast flag for any relay advertising this amount of capacity or
  1907. more. (Default: 100 KBytes)
  1908. [[AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee]] **AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  1909. Authoritative directories only. If non-zero, this advertised capacity
  1910. or more is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement
  1911. for the Guard flag. (Default: 2 MBytes)
  1912. [[AuthDirPinKeys]] **AuthDirPinKeys** **0**|**1**::
  1913. Authoritative directories only. If non-zero, do not allow any relay to
  1914. publish a descriptor if any other relay has reserved its <Ed25519,RSA>
  1915. identity keypair. In all cases, Tor records every keypair it accepts
  1916. in a journal if it is new, or if it differs from the most recently
  1917. accepted pinning for one of the keys it contains. (Default: 1)
  1918. [[AuthDirSharedRandomness]] **AuthDirSharedRandomness** **0**|**1**::
  1919. Authoritative directories only. Switch for the shared random protocol.
  1920. If zero, the authority won't participate in the protocol. If non-zero
  1921. (default), the flag "shared-rand-participate" is added to the authority
  1922. vote indicating participation in the protocol. (Default: 1)
  1923. [[AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys]] **AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys** **0**|**1**::
  1924. Authoritative directories only. If this option is set to 0, then we treat
  1925. relays as "Running" if their RSA key is correct when we probe them,
  1926. regardless of their Ed25519 key. We should only ever set this option to 0
  1927. if there is some major bug in Ed25519 link authentication that causes us
  1928. to label all the relays as not Running. (Default: 1)
  1929. [[BridgePassword]] **BridgePassword** __Password__::
  1930. If set, contains an HTTP authenticator that tells a bridge authority to
  1931. serve all requested bridge information. Used by the (only partially
  1932. implemented) "bridge community" design, where a community of bridge
  1933. relay operators all use an alternate bridge directory authority,
  1934. and their target user audience can periodically fetch the list of
  1935. available community bridges to stay up-to-date. (Default: not set)
  1936. [[V3AuthVotingInterval]] **V3AuthVotingInterval** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  1937. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred voting
  1938. interval. Note that voting will __actually__ happen at an interval chosen
  1939. by consensus from all the authorities' preferred intervals. This time
  1940. SHOULD divide evenly into a day. (Default: 1 hour)
  1941. [[V3AuthVoteDelay]] **V3AuthVoteDelay** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  1942. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred delay
  1943. between publishing its vote and assuming it has all the votes from all the
  1944. other authorities. Note that the actual time used is not the server's
  1945. preferred time, but the consensus of all preferences. (Default: 5 minutes)
  1946. [[V3AuthDistDelay]] **V3AuthDistDelay** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  1947. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred delay
  1948. between publishing its consensus and signature and assuming it has all the
  1949. signatures from all the other authorities. Note that the actual time used
  1950. is not the server's preferred time, but the consensus of all preferences.
  1951. (Default: 5 minutes)
  1952. [[V3AuthNIntervalsValid]] **V3AuthNIntervalsValid** __NUM__::
  1953. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the number of VotingIntervals
  1954. for which each consensus should be valid for. Choosing high numbers
  1955. increases network partitioning risks; choosing low numbers increases
  1956. directory traffic. Note that the actual number of intervals used is not the
  1957. server's preferred number, but the consensus of all preferences. Must be at
  1958. least 2. (Default: 3)
  1959. [[V3BandwidthsFile]] **V3BandwidthsFile** __FILENAME__::
  1960. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the location of the
  1961. bandwidth-authority generated file storing information on relays' measured
  1962. bandwidth capacities. (Default: unset)
  1963. [[V3AuthUseLegacyKey]] **V3AuthUseLegacyKey** **0**|**1**::
  1964. If set, the directory authority will sign consensuses not only with its
  1965. own signing key, but also with a "legacy" key and certificate with a
  1966. different identity. This feature is used to migrate directory authority
  1967. keys in the event of a compromise. (Default: 0)
  1968. [[RephistTrackTime]] **RephistTrackTime** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**::
  1969. Tells an authority, or other node tracking node reliability and history,
  1970. that fine-grained information about nodes can be discarded when it hasn't
  1971. changed for a given amount of time. (Default: 24 hours)
  1972. [[AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity]] **AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity** **0**|**1**::
  1973. Authoritative directories only. When set to 0, OR ports with an
  1974. IPv6 address are being accepted without reachability testing.
  1975. When set to 1, IPv6 OR ports are being tested just like IPv4 OR
  1976. ports. (Default: 0)
  1977. [[MinMeasuredBWsForAuthToIgnoreAdvertised]] **MinMeasuredBWsForAuthToIgnoreAdvertised** __N__::
  1978. A total value, in abstract bandwidth units, describing how much
  1979. measured total bandwidth an authority should have observed on the network
  1980. before it will treat advertised bandwidths as wholly
  1981. unreliable. (Default: 500)
  1982. HIDDEN SERVICE OPTIONS
  1983. ----------------------
  1984. The following options are used to configure a hidden service.
  1985. [[HiddenServiceDir]] **HiddenServiceDir** __DIRECTORY__::
  1986. Store data files for a hidden service in DIRECTORY. Every hidden service
  1987. must have a separate directory. You may use this option multiple times to
  1988. specify multiple services. If DIRECTORY does not exist, Tor will create it.
  1989. (Note: in current versions of Tor, if DIRECTORY is a relative path,
  1990. it will be relative to the current
  1991. working directory of Tor instance, not to its DataDirectory. Do not
  1992. rely on this behavior; it is not guaranteed to remain the same in future
  1993. versions.)
  1994. [[HiddenServicePort]] **HiddenServicePort** __VIRTPORT__ [__TARGET__]::
  1995. Configure a virtual port VIRTPORT for a hidden service. You may use this
  1996. option multiple times; each time applies to the service using the most
  1997. recent HiddenServiceDir. By default, this option maps the virtual port to
  1998. the same port on 127.0.0.1 over TCP. You may override the target port,
  1999. address, or both by specifying a target of addr, port, addr:port, or
  2000. **unix:**__path__. (You can specify an IPv6 target as [addr]:port. Unix
  2001. paths may be quoted, and may use standard C escapes.)
  2002. You may also have multiple lines with the same VIRTPORT: when a user
  2003. connects to that VIRTPORT, one of the TARGETs from those lines will be
  2004. chosen at random.
  2005. [[PublishHidServDescriptors]] **PublishHidServDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
  2006. If set to 0, Tor will run any hidden services you configure, but it won't
  2007. advertise them to the rendezvous directory. This option is only useful if
  2008. you're using a Tor controller that handles hidserv publishing for you.
  2009. (Default: 1)
  2010. [[HiddenServiceVersion]] **HiddenServiceVersion** __version__,__version__,__...__::
  2011. A list of rendezvous service descriptor versions to publish for the hidden
  2012. service. Currently, only version 2 is supported. (Default: 2)
  2013. [[HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient]] **HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient** __auth-type__ __client-name__,__client-name__,__...__::
  2014. If configured, the hidden service is accessible for authorized clients
  2015. only. The auth-type can either be \'basic' for a general-purpose
  2016. authorization protocol or \'stealth' for a less scalable protocol that also
  2017. hides service activity from unauthorized clients. Only clients that are
  2018. listed here are authorized to access the hidden service. Valid client names
  2019. are 1 to 16 characters long and only use characters in A-Za-z0-9+-_ (no
  2020. spaces). If this option is set, the hidden service is not accessible for
  2021. clients without authorization any more. Generated authorization data can be
  2022. found in the hostname file. Clients need to put this authorization data in
  2023. their configuration file using **HidServAuth**.
  2024. [[HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts]] **HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts** **0**|**1**::
  2025. If set to 1, then connections to unrecognized ports do not cause the
  2026. current hidden service to close rendezvous circuits. (Setting this to 0 is
  2027. not an authorization mechanism; it is instead meant to be a mild
  2028. inconvenience to port-scanners.) (Default: 0)
  2029. [[HiddenServiceMaxStreams]] **HiddenServiceMaxStreams** __N__::
  2030. The maximum number of simultaneous streams (connections) per rendezvous
  2031. circuit. The maximum value allowed is 65535. (Setting this to 0 will allow
  2032. an unlimited number of simultanous streams.) (Default: 0)
  2033. [[HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit]] **HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit** **0**|**1**::
  2034. If set to 1, then exceeding **HiddenServiceMaxStreams** will cause the
  2035. offending rendezvous circuit to be torn down, as opposed to stream creation
  2036. requests that exceed the limit being silently ignored. (Default: 0)
  2037. [[RendPostPeriod]] **RendPostPeriod** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**::
  2038. Every time the specified period elapses, Tor uploads any rendezvous
  2039. service descriptors to the directory servers. This information is also
  2040. uploaded whenever it changes. Minimum value allowed is 10 minutes and
  2041. maximum is 3.5 days. (Default: 1 hour)
  2042. [[HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable]] **HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable** **0**|**1**::
  2043. If this option is set to 1, allow the filesystem group to read the
  2044. hidden service directory and hostname file. If the option is set to 0,
  2045. only owner is able to read the hidden service directory. (Default: 0)
  2046. Has no effect on Windows.
  2047. [[HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints]] **HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints** __NUM__::
  2048. Number of introduction points the hidden service will have. You can't
  2049. have more than 10. (Default: 3)
  2050. [[HiddenServiceSingleHopMode]] **HiddenServiceSingleHopMode** **0**|**1**::
  2051. **Experimental - Non Anonymous** Hidden Services on a tor instance in
  2052. HiddenServiceSingleHopMode make one-hop (direct) circuits between the onion
  2053. service server, and the introduction and rendezvous points. (Onion service
  2054. descriptors are still posted using 3-hop paths, to avoid onion service
  2055. directories blocking the service.)
  2056. This option makes every hidden service instance hosted by a tor instance a
  2057. Single Onion Service. One-hop circuits make Single Onion servers easily
  2058. locatable, but clients remain location-anonymous. However, the fact that a
  2059. client is accessing a Single Onion rather than a Hidden Service may be
  2060. statistically distinguishable. +
  2061. +
  2062. **WARNING:** Once a hidden service directory has been used by a tor
  2063. instance in HiddenServiceSingleHopMode, it can **NEVER** be used again for
  2064. a hidden service. It is best practice to create a new hidden service
  2065. directory, key, and address for each new Single Onion Service and Hidden
  2066. Service. It is not possible to run Single Onion Services and Hidden
  2067. Services from the same tor instance: they should be run on different
  2068. servers with different IP addresses. +
  2069. +
  2070. HiddenServiceSingleHopMode requires HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode to be set
  2071. to 1. Since a Single Onion service is non-anonymous, you can not configure
  2072. a SOCKSPort on a tor instance that is running in
  2073. **HiddenServiceSingleHopMode**. Can not be changed while tor is running.
  2074. (Default: 0)
  2075. [[HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode]] **HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode** **0**|**1**::
  2076. Makes hidden services non-anonymous on this tor instance. Allows the
  2077. non-anonymous HiddenServiceSingleHopMode. Enables direct connections in the
  2078. server-side hidden service protocol. If you are using this option,
  2079. you need to disable all client-side services on your Tor instance,
  2080. including setting SOCKSPort to "0". Can not be changed while tor is
  2081. running. (Default: 0)
  2082. TESTING NETWORK OPTIONS
  2083. -----------------------
  2084. The following options are used for running a testing Tor network.
  2085. [[TestingTorNetwork]] **TestingTorNetwork** **0**|**1**::
  2086. If set to 1, Tor adjusts default values of the configuration options below,
  2087. so that it is easier to set up a testing Tor network. May only be set if
  2088. non-default set of DirAuthorities is set. Cannot be unset while Tor is
  2089. running.
  2090. (Default: 0) +
  2091. ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig 1
  2092. DirAllowPrivateAddresses 1
  2093. EnforceDistinctSubnets 0
  2094. AssumeReachable 1
  2095. AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr 0
  2096. AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr 0
  2097. ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityDownloadSchedule 0, 2,
  2098. 4 (for 40 seconds), 8, 16, 32, 60
  2099. ClientBootstrapConsensusFallbackDownloadSchedule 0, 1,
  2100. 4 (for 40 seconds), 8, 16, 32, 60
  2101. ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyDownloadSchedule 0, 1,
  2102. 4 (for 40 seconds), 8, 16, 32, 60
  2103. ClientBootstrapConsensusMaxDownloadTries 80
  2104. ClientBootstrapConsensusAuthorityOnlyMaxDownloadTries 80
  2105. ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses 0
  2106. ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0
  2107. CountPrivateBandwidth 1
  2108. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate 0
  2109. ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses 1
  2110. V3AuthVotingInterval 5 minutes
  2111. V3AuthVoteDelay 20 seconds
  2112. V3AuthDistDelay 20 seconds
  2113. MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2 0 seconds
  2114. TestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval 5 minutes
  2115. TestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay 20 seconds
  2116. TestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay 20 seconds
  2117. TestingAuthDirTimeToLearnReachability 0 minutes
  2118. TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime 0 minutes
  2119. TestingServerDownloadSchedule 0, 0, 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60
  2120. TestingClientDownloadSchedule 0, 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60
  2121. TestingServerConsensusDownloadSchedule 0, 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60
  2122. TestingClientConsensusDownloadSchedule 0, 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, 60
  2123. TestingBridgeDownloadSchedule 60, 30, 30, 60
  2124. TestingClientMaxIntervalWithoutRequest 5 seconds
  2125. TestingDirConnectionMaxStall 30 seconds
  2126. TestingConsensusMaxDownloadTries 80
  2127. TestingDescriptorMaxDownloadTries 80
  2128. TestingMicrodescMaxDownloadTries 80
  2129. TestingCertMaxDownloadTries 80
  2130. TestingEnableConnBwEvent 1
  2131. TestingEnableCellStatsEvent 1
  2132. TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent 1
  2133. [[TestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval]] **TestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  2134. Like V3AuthVotingInterval, but for initial voting interval before the first
  2135. consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  2136. **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 30 minutes)
  2137. [[TestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay]] **TestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  2138. Like V3AuthVoteDelay, but for initial voting interval before
  2139. the first consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  2140. **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 5 minutes)
  2141. [[TestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay]] **TestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  2142. Like V3AuthDistDelay, but for initial voting interval before
  2143. the first consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  2144. **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 5 minutes)
  2145. [[TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset]] **TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**::
  2146. Directory authorities offset voting start time by this much.
  2147. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 0)
  2148. [[TestingAuthDirTimeToLearnReachability]] **TestingAuthDirTimeToLearnReachability** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  2149. After starting as an authority, do not make claims about whether routers
  2150. are Running until this much time has passed. Changing this requires
  2151. that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 30 minutes)
  2152. [[TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime]] **TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime** __N__ **minutes**|**hours**::
  2153. Clients try downloading server descriptors from directory caches after this
  2154. time. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default:
  2155. 10 minutes)
  2156. [[TestingMinFastFlagThreshold]] **TestingMinFastFlagThreshold** __N__ **bytes**|**KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  2157. Minimum value for the Fast flag. Overrides the ordinary minimum taken
  2158. from the consensus when TestingTorNetwork is set. (Default: 0.)
  2159. [[TestingServerDownloadSchedule]] **TestingServerDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  2160. Schedule for when servers should download things in general. Changing this
  2161. requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 0, 0, 0, 60, 60, 120,
  2162. 300, 900, 2147483647)
  2163. [[TestingClientDownloadSchedule]] **TestingClientDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  2164. Schedule for when clients should download things in general. Changing this
  2165. requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 0, 0, 60, 300, 600,
  2166. 2147483647)
  2167. [[TestingServerConsensusDownloadSchedule]] **TestingServerConsensusDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  2168. Schedule for when servers should download consensuses. Changing this
  2169. requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 0, 0, 60, 300, 600,
  2170. 1800, 1800, 1800, 1800, 1800, 3600, 7200)
  2171. [[TestingClientConsensusDownloadSchedule]] **TestingClientConsensusDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  2172. Schedule for when clients should download consensuses. Changing this
  2173. requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 0, 0, 60, 300, 600,
  2174. 1800, 3600, 3600, 3600, 10800, 21600, 43200)
  2175. [[TestingBridgeDownloadSchedule]] **TestingBridgeDownloadSchedule** __N__,__N__,__...__::
  2176. Schedule for when clients should download bridge descriptors. Changing this
  2177. requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 3600, 900, 900, 3600)
  2178. [[TestingClientMaxIntervalWithoutRequest]] **TestingClientMaxIntervalWithoutRequest** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**::
  2179. When directory clients have only a few descriptors to request, they batch
  2180. them until they have more, or until this amount of time has passed.
  2181. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 10
  2182. minutes)
  2183. [[TestingDirConnectionMaxStall]] **TestingDirConnectionMaxStall** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**::
  2184. Let a directory connection stall this long before expiring it.
  2185. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default:
  2186. 5 minutes)
  2187. [[TestingConsensusMaxDownloadTries]] **TestingConsensusMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  2188. Try this many times to download a consensus before giving up. Changing
  2189. this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 8)
  2190. [[TestingDescriptorMaxDownloadTries]] **TestingDescriptorMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  2191. Try this often to download a server descriptor before giving up.
  2192. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 8)
  2193. [[TestingMicrodescMaxDownloadTries]] **TestingMicrodescMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  2194. Try this often to download a microdesc descriptor before giving up.
  2195. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 8)
  2196. [[TestingCertMaxDownloadTries]] **TestingCertMaxDownloadTries** __NUM__::
  2197. Try this often to download a v3 authority certificate before giving up.
  2198. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set. (Default: 8)
  2199. [[TestingDirAuthVoteExit]] **TestingDirAuthVoteExit** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  2200. A list of identity fingerprints, country codes, and
  2201. address patterns of nodes to vote Exit for regardless of their
  2202. uptime, bandwidth, or exit policy. See the **ExcludeNodes**
  2203. option for more information on how to specify nodes. +
  2204. +
  2205. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2206. has to be set. See the **ExcludeNodes** option for more
  2207. information on how to specify nodes.
  2208. [[TestingDirAuthVoteExitIsStrict]] **TestingDirAuthVoteExitIsStrict** **0**|**1** ::
  2209. If True (1), a node will never receive the Exit flag unless it is specified
  2210. in the **TestingDirAuthVoteExit** list, regardless of its uptime, bandwidth,
  2211. or exit policy. +
  2212. +
  2213. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2214. has to be set.
  2215. [[TestingDirAuthVoteGuard]] **TestingDirAuthVoteGuard** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  2216. A list of identity fingerprints and country codes and
  2217. address patterns of nodes to vote Guard for regardless of their
  2218. uptime and bandwidth. See the **ExcludeNodes** option for more
  2219. information on how to specify nodes. +
  2220. +
  2221. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2222. has to be set.
  2223. [[TestingDirAuthVoteGuardIsStrict]] **TestingDirAuthVoteGuardIsStrict** **0**|**1** ::
  2224. If True (1), a node will never receive the Guard flag unless it is specified
  2225. in the **TestingDirAuthVoteGuard** list, regardless of its uptime and bandwidth. +
  2226. +
  2227. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2228. has to be set.
  2229. [[TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir]] **TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir** __node__,__node__,__...__::
  2230. A list of identity fingerprints and country codes and
  2231. address patterns of nodes to vote HSDir for regardless of their
  2232. uptime and DirPort. See the **ExcludeNodes** option for more
  2233. information on how to specify nodes. +
  2234. +
  2235. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2236. must be set.
  2237. [[TestingDirAuthVoteHSDirIsStrict]] **TestingDirAuthVoteHSDirIsStrict** **0**|**1** ::
  2238. If True (1), a node will never receive the HSDir flag unless it is specified
  2239. in the **TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir** list, regardless of its uptime and DirPort. +
  2240. +
  2241. In order for this option to have any effect, **TestingTorNetwork**
  2242. has to be set.
  2243. [[TestingEnableConnBwEvent]] **TestingEnableConnBwEvent** **0**|**1**::
  2244. If this option is set, then Tor controllers may register for CONN_BW
  2245. events. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set.
  2246. (Default: 0)
  2247. [[TestingEnableCellStatsEvent]] **TestingEnableCellStatsEvent** **0**|**1**::
  2248. If this option is set, then Tor controllers may register for CELL_STATS
  2249. events. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set.
  2250. (Default: 0)
  2251. [[TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent]] **TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent** **0**|**1**::
  2252. If this option is set, then Tor controllers may register for TB_EMPTY
  2253. events. Changing this requires that **TestingTorNetwork** is set.
  2254. (Default: 0)
  2255. [[TestingMinExitFlagThreshold]] **TestingMinExitFlagThreshold** __N__ **KBytes**|**MBytes**|**GBytes**|**TBytes**|**KBits**|**MBits**|**GBits**|**TBits**::
  2256. Sets a lower-bound for assigning an exit flag when running as an
  2257. authority on a testing network. Overrides the usual default lower bound
  2258. of 4 KB. (Default: 0)
  2259. [[TestingLinkCertLifetime]] **TestingLinkCertLifetime** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**|**months**::
  2260. Overrides the default lifetime for the certificates used to authenticate
  2261. our X509 link cert with our ed25519 signing key.
  2262. (Default: 2 days)
  2263. [[TestingAuthKeyLifetime]] **TestingAuthKeyLifetime** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**|**days**|**weeks**|**months**::
  2264. Overrides the default lifetime for a signing Ed25519 TLS Link authentication
  2265. key.
  2266. (Default: 2 days)
  2267. [[TestingLinkKeySlop]] **TestingLinkKeySlop** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours** +
  2268. [[TestingAuthKeySlop]] **TestingAuthKeySlop** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours** +
  2269. [[TestingSigningKeySlop]] **TestingSigningKeySlop** __N__ **seconds**|**minutes**|**hours**::
  2270. How early before the official expiration of a an Ed25519 signing key do
  2271. we replace it and issue a new key?
  2272. (Default: 3 hours for link and auth; 1 day for signing.)
  2273. NON-PERSISTENT OPTIONS
  2274. ----------------------
  2275. These options are not saved to the torrc file by the "SAVECONF" controller
  2276. command. Other options of this type are documented in control-spec.txt,
  2277. section 5.4. End-users should mostly ignore them.
  2278. [[UnderscorePorts]] **\_\_ControlPort**, **\_\_DirPort**, **\_\_DNSPort**, **\_\_ExtORPort**, **\_\_NATDPort**, **\_\_ORPort**, **\_\_SocksPort**, **\_\_TransPort**::
  2279. These underscore-prefixed options are variants of the regular Port
  2280. options. They behave the same, except they are not saved to the
  2281. torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command.
  2282. SIGNALS
  2283. -------
  2284. Tor catches the following signals:
  2285. [[SIGTERM]] **SIGTERM**::
  2286. Tor will catch this, clean up and sync to disk if necessary, and exit.
  2287. [[SIGINT]] **SIGINT**::
  2288. Tor clients behave as with SIGTERM; but Tor servers will do a controlled
  2289. slow shutdown, closing listeners and waiting 30 seconds before exiting.
  2290. (The delay can be configured with the ShutdownWaitLength config option.)
  2291. [[SIGHUP]] **SIGHUP**::
  2292. The signal instructs Tor to reload its configuration (including closing and
  2293. reopening logs), and kill and restart its helper processes if applicable.
  2294. [[SIGUSR1]] **SIGUSR1**::
  2295. Log statistics about current connections, past connections, and throughput.
  2296. [[SIGUSR2]] **SIGUSR2**::
  2297. Switch all logs to loglevel debug. You can go back to the old loglevels by
  2298. sending a SIGHUP.
  2299. [[SIGCHLD]] **SIGCHLD**::
  2300. Tor receives this signal when one of its helper processes has exited, so it
  2301. can clean up.
  2302. [[SIGPIPE]] **SIGPIPE**::
  2303. Tor catches this signal and ignores it.
  2304. [[SIGXFSZ]] **SIGXFSZ**::
  2305. If this signal exists on your platform, Tor catches and ignores it.
  2306. FILES
  2307. -----
  2308. **@CONFDIR@/torrc**::
  2309. The configuration file, which contains "option value" pairs.
  2310. **$HOME/.torrc**::
  2311. Fallback location for torrc, if @CONFDIR@/torrc is not found.
  2312. **@LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor/**::
  2313. The tor process stores keys and other data here.
  2314. __DataDirectory__**/cached-status/**::
  2315. The most recently downloaded network status document for each authority.
  2316. Each file holds one such document; the filenames are the hexadecimal
  2317. identity key fingerprints of the directory authorities. Obsolete;
  2318. no longer in use.
  2319. __DataDirectory__**/cached-certs**::
  2320. This file holds downloaded directory key certificates that are used to
  2321. verify authenticity of documents generated by Tor directory authorities.
  2322. __DataDirectory__**/cached-consensus** and/or **cached-microdesc-consensus**::
  2323. The most recent consensus network status document we've downloaded.
  2324. __DataDirectory__**/cached-descriptors** and **cached-descriptors.new**::
  2325. These files hold downloaded router statuses. Some routers may appear more
  2326. than once; if so, the most recently published descriptor is used. Lines
  2327. beginning with @-signs are annotations that contain more information about
  2328. a given router. The ".new" file is an append-only journal; when it gets
  2329. too large, all entries are merged into a new cached-descriptors file.
  2330. __DataDirectory__**/cached-extrainfo** and **cached-extrainfo.new**::
  2331. As "cached-descriptors", but holds optionally-downloaded "extra-info"
  2332. documents. Relays use these documents to send inessential information
  2333. about statistics, bandwidth history, and network health to the
  2334. authorities. They aren't fetched by default; see the DownloadExtraInfo
  2335. option for more info.
  2336. __DataDirectory__**/cached-microdescs** and **cached-microdescs.new**::
  2337. These files hold downloaded microdescriptors. Lines beginning with
  2338. @-signs are annotations that contain more information about a given
  2339. router. The ".new" file is an append-only journal; when it gets too
  2340. large, all entries are merged into a new cached-microdescs file.
  2341. __DataDirectory__**/cached-routers** and **cached-routers.new**::
  2342. Obsolete versions of cached-descriptors and cached-descriptors.new. When
  2343. Tor can't find the newer files, it looks here instead.
  2344. __DataDirectory__**/state**::
  2345. A set of persistent key-value mappings. These are documented in
  2346. the file. These include:
  2347. - The current entry guards and their status.
  2348. - The current bandwidth accounting values.
  2349. - When the file was last written
  2350. - What version of Tor generated the state file
  2351. - A short history of bandwidth usage, as produced in the server
  2352. descriptors.
  2353. __DataDirectory__**/sr-state**::
  2354. Authority only. State file used to record information about the current
  2355. status of the shared-random-value voting state.
  2356. __DataDirectory__**/diff-cache**::
  2357. Directory cache only. Holds older consensuses, and diffs from older
  2358. consensuses to the most recent consensus of each type, compressed
  2359. in various ways. Each file contains a set of key-value arguments
  2360. decribing its contents, followed by a single NUL byte, followed by the
  2361. main file contents.
  2362. __DataDirectory__**/bw_accounting**::
  2363. Used to track bandwidth accounting values (when the current period starts
  2364. and ends; how much has been read and written so far this period). This file
  2365. is obsolete, and the data is now stored in the \'state' file instead.
  2366. __DataDirectory__**/control_auth_cookie**::
  2367. Used for cookie authentication with the controller. Location can be
  2368. overridden by the CookieAuthFile config option. Regenerated on startup. See
  2369. control-spec.txt in https://spec.torproject.org/[torspec] for details.
  2370. Only used when cookie authentication is enabled.
  2371. __DataDirectory__**/lock**::
  2372. This file is used to prevent two Tor instances from using same data
  2373. directory. If access to this file is locked, data directory is already
  2374. in use by Tor.
  2375. __DataDirectory__**/key-pinning-journal**::
  2376. Used by authorities. A line-based file that records mappings between
  2377. RSA1024 identity keys and Ed25519 identity keys. Authorities enforce
  2378. these mappings, so that once a relay has picked an Ed25519 key, stealing
  2379. or factoring the RSA1024 key will no longer let an attacker impersonate
  2380. the relay.
  2381. __DataDirectory__**/keys/***::
  2382. Only used by servers. Holds identity keys and onion keys.
  2383. __DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_identity_key**::
  2384. A v3 directory authority's master identity key, used to authenticate its
  2385. signing key. Tor doesn't use this while it's running. The tor-gencert
  2386. program uses this. If you're running an authority, you should keep this
  2387. key offline, and not actually put it here.
  2388. __DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_certificate**::
  2389. A v3 directory authority's certificate, which authenticates the authority's
  2390. current vote- and consensus-signing key using its master identity key.
  2391. Only directory authorities use this file.
  2392. __DataDirectory__**/keys/authority_signing_key**::
  2393. A v3 directory authority's signing key, used to sign votes and consensuses.
  2394. Only directory authorities use this file. Corresponds to the
  2395. **authority_certificate** cert.
  2396. __DataDirectory__**/keys/legacy_certificate**::
  2397. As authority_certificate: used only when V3AuthUseLegacyKey is set.
  2398. See documentation for V3AuthUseLegacyKey.
  2399. __DataDirectory__**/keys/legacy_signing_key**::
  2400. As authority_signing_key: used only when V3AuthUseLegacyKey is set.
  2401. See documentation for V3AuthUseLegacyKey.
  2402. __DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_id_key**::
  2403. A relay's RSA1024 permanent identity key, including private and public
  2404. components. Used to sign router descriptors, and to sign other keys.
  2405. __DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_master_id_public_key**::
  2406. The public part of a relay's Ed25519 permanent identity key.
  2407. __DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_master_id_secret_key**::
  2408. The private part of a relay's Ed25519 permanent identity key. This key
  2409. is used to sign the medium-term ed25519 signing key. This file can be
  2410. kept offline, or kept encrypted. If so, Tor will not be able to generate
  2411. new signing keys itself; you'll need to use tor --keygen yourself to do
  2412. so.
  2413. __DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_signing_secret_key**::
  2414. The private and public components of a relay's medium-term Ed25519 signing
  2415. key. This key is authenticated by the Ed25519 master key, in turn
  2416. authenticates other keys (and router descriptors).
  2417. __DataDirectory__**/keys/ed25519_signing_cert**::
  2418. The certificate which authenticates "ed25519_signing_secret_key" as
  2419. having been signed by the Ed25519 master key.
  2420. __DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_onion_key** and **secret_onion_key.old**::
  2421. A relay's RSA1024 short-term onion key. Used to decrypt old-style ("TAP")
  2422. circuit extension requests. The ".old" file holds the previously
  2423. generated key, which the relay uses to handle any requests that were
  2424. made by clients that didn't have the new one.
  2425. __DataDirectory__**/keys/secret_onion_key_ntor** and **secret_onion_key_ntor.old**::
  2426. A relay's Curve25519 short-term onion key. Used to handle modern ("ntor")
  2427. circuit extension requests. The ".old" file holds the previously
  2428. generated key, which the relay uses to handle any requests that were
  2429. made by clients that didn't have the new one.
  2430. __DataDirectory__**/fingerprint**::
  2431. Only used by servers. Holds the fingerprint of the server's identity key.
  2432. __DataDirectory__**/hashed-fingerprint**::
  2433. Only used by bridges. Holds the hashed fingerprint of the bridge's
  2434. identity key. (That is, the hash of the hash of the identity key.)
  2435. __DataDirectory__**/v3-status-votes**::
  2436. Only for v3 authoritative directory servers. This file contains
  2437. status votes from all the authoritative directory servers.
  2438. __DataDirectory__**/unverified-consensus**::
  2439. This file contains a network consensus document that has been downloaded,
  2440. but which we didn't have the right certificates to check yet.
  2441. __DataDirectory__**/unverified-microdesc-consensus**::
  2442. This file contains a microdescriptor-flavored network consensus document
  2443. that has been downloaded, but which we didn't have the right certificates
  2444. to check yet.
  2445. __DataDirectory__**/unparseable-desc**::
  2446. Onion server descriptors that Tor was unable to parse are dumped to this
  2447. file. Only used for debugging.
  2448. __DataDirectory__**/router-stability**::
  2449. Only used by authoritative directory servers. Tracks measurements for
  2450. router mean-time-between-failures so that authorities have a good idea of
  2451. how to set their Stable flags.
  2452. __DataDirectory__**/stats/dirreq-stats**::
  2453. Only used by directory caches and authorities. This file is used to
  2454. collect directory request statistics.
  2455. __DataDirectory__**/stats/entry-stats**::
  2456. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect incoming connection
  2457. statistics by Tor entry nodes.
  2458. __DataDirectory__**/stats/bridge-stats**::
  2459. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect incoming connection
  2460. statistics by Tor bridges.
  2461. __DataDirectory__**/stats/exit-stats**::
  2462. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect outgoing connection
  2463. statistics by Tor exit routers.
  2464. __DataDirectory__**/stats/buffer-stats**::
  2465. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect buffer usage
  2466. history.
  2467. __DataDirectory__**/stats/conn-stats**::
  2468. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect approximate connection
  2469. history (number of active connections over time).
  2470. __DataDirectory__**/stats/hidserv-stats**::
  2471. Only used by servers. This file is used to collect approximate counts
  2472. of what fraction of the traffic is hidden service rendezvous traffic, and
  2473. approximately how many hidden services the relay has seen.
  2474. __DataDirectory__**/networkstatus-bridges**::
  2475. Only used by authoritative bridge directories. Contains information
  2476. about bridges that have self-reported themselves to the bridge
  2477. authority.
  2478. __DataDirectory__**/approved-routers**::
  2479. Authorities only. This file is used to configure which relays are
  2480. known to be valid, invalid, and so forth.
  2481. __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/hostname**::
  2482. The <base32-encoded-fingerprint>.onion domain name for this hidden service.
  2483. If the hidden service is restricted to authorized clients only, this file
  2484. also contains authorization data for all clients.
  2485. __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/private_key**::
  2486. The private key for this hidden service.
  2487. __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/client_keys**::
  2488. Authorization data for a hidden service that is only accessible by
  2489. authorized clients.
  2490. __HiddenServiceDirectory__**/onion_service_non_anonymous**::
  2491. This file is present if a hidden service key was created in
  2492. **HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode**.
  2493. SEE ALSO
  2494. --------
  2495. **torsocks**(1), **torify**(1) +
  2496. **https://www.torproject.org/**
  2497. **torspec: https://spec.torproject.org **
  2498. BUGS
  2499. ----
  2500. Plenty, probably. Tor is still in development. Please report them at https://trac.torproject.org/.
  2501. AUTHORS
  2502. -------
  2503. Roger Dingledine [arma at mit.edu], Nick Mathewson [nickm at alum.mit.edu].