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  1. .TH TOR 1 "August 2009" "TOR"
  2. .SH NAME
  3. tor \- The second-generation onion router
  4. .SH SYNOPSIS
  5. .B tor
  6. [\fIOPTION value\fR]...
  7. .SH DESCRIPTION
  8. .I tor
  9. is a connection-oriented anonymizing communication
  10. service. Users choose a source-routed path through a set of nodes, and
  11. negotiate a "virtual circuit" through the network, in which each node
  12. knows its predecessor and successor, but no others. Traffic flowing down
  13. the circuit is unwrapped by a symmetric key at each node, which reveals
  14. the downstream node.
  15. .PP
  16. Basically \fItor\fR provides a distributed network of servers ("onion
  17. routers"). Users bounce their TCP streams -- web traffic, ftp, ssh, etc --
  18. around the routers, and recipients, observers, and even the routers
  19. themselves have difficulty tracking the source of the stream.
  20. .SH OPTIONS
  21. \fB-h, -help\fP
  22. Display a short help message and exit.
  23. .LP
  24. .TP
  25. \fB-f \fR\fIFILE\fP
  26. FILE contains further "option value" pairs. (Default: @CONFDIR@/torrc)
  27. .LP
  28. .TP
  29. \fB--hash-password\fP
  30. Generates a hashed password for control port access.
  31. .LP
  32. .TP
  33. \fB--list-fingerprint\fP
  34. Generate your keys and output your nickname and fingerprint.
  35. .LP
  36. .TP
  37. \fB--verify-config\fP
  38. Verify the configuration file is valid.
  39. .LP
  40. .TP
  41. \fB--nt-service\fP
  42. \fB--service [install|remove|start|stop]\fP
  43. Manage the Tor Windows NT/2000/XP service. Current instructions can
  44. be found at https://wiki.torproject.org/noreply/TheOnionRouter/TorFAQ#WinNTService
  45. .LP
  46. .TP
  47. \fB--list-torrc-options\fP
  48. List all valid options.
  49. .LP
  50. .TP
  51. \fB--version\fP
  52. Display Tor version and exit.
  53. .LP
  54. .TP
  55. \fB--quiet\fP
  56. Do not start Tor with a console log unless explicitly requested to do
  57. so. (By default, Tor starts out logging messages at level "notice" or
  58. higher to the console, until it has parsed its configuration.)
  59. .LP
  60. .TP
  61. Other options can be specified either on the command-line (\fI--option
  62. value\fR), or in the configuration file (\fIoption value\fR or
  63. \fIoption "value"\fR). Options are case-insensitive. C-style escaped
  64. characters are allowed inside quoted values.
  65. .LP
  66. .TP
  67. \fBBandwidthRate \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  68. A token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth usage on this node
  69. to the specified number of bytes per second, and the average outgoing
  70. bandwidth usage to that same value. (Default: 5 MB)
  71. .LP
  72. .TP
  73. \fBBandwidthBurst \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  74. Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) to the
  75. given number of bytes in each direction. (Default: 10 MB)
  76. .LP
  77. .TP
  78. \fBMaxAdvertisedBandwidth \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  79. If set, we will not advertise more than this amount of bandwidth for our
  80. BandwidthRate. Server operators who want to reduce the number of clients
  81. who ask to build circuits through them (since this is proportional to
  82. advertised bandwidth rate) can thus reduce the CPU demands on their
  83. server without impacting network performance.
  84. .LP
  85. .TP
  86. \fBRelayBandwidthRate \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  87. If defined, a separate token bucket limits the average incoming bandwidth
  88. usage for _relayed traffic_ on this node to the specified number of
  89. bytes per second, and the average outgoing bandwidth usage to that same
  90. value. Relayed traffic currently is calculated to include answers to directory
  91. requests, but that may change in future versions. (Default: 0)
  92. .LP
  93. .TP
  94. \fBRelayBandwidthBurst \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  95. Limit the maximum token bucket size (also known as the burst) for
  96. _relayed traffic_ to the
  97. given number of bytes in each direction. (Default: 0)
  98. .LP
  99. .TP
  100. \fBConnLimit \fR\fINUM\fP
  101. The minimum number of file descriptors that must be available to
  102. the Tor process before it will start. Tor will ask the OS for as
  103. many file descriptors as the OS will allow (you can find this
  104. by "ulimit -H -n"). If this number is less than ConnLimit, then
  105. Tor will refuse to start.
  106. You probably don't need to adjust this. It has no effect on
  107. Windows since that platform lacks getrlimit(). (Default: 1000)
  108. .LP
  109. .TP
  110. \fBConstrainedSockets \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  111. If set, Tor will tell the kernel to attempt to shrink the buffers for all
  112. sockets to the size specified in \fBConstrainedSockSize\fP. This is useful
  113. for virtual servers and other environments where system level TCP
  114. buffers may be limited. If you're on a virtual server, and you
  115. encounter the "Error creating network
  116. socket: No buffer space available" message, you are likely experiencing
  117. this problem.
  118. The preferred solution is to have the admin increase the buffer pool for
  119. the host itself via /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_mem or equivalent facility; this
  120. configuration option is a second-resort.
  121. The DirPort option should also not be used if TCP buffers are scarce. The
  122. cached directory requests consume additional sockets which exacerbates the
  123. problem.
  124. You should \fBnot\fP enable this feature unless you encounter the "no buffer
  125. space available" issue. Reducing the TCP buffers affects window size for
  126. the TCP stream and will reduce throughput in proportion to round trip
  127. time on long paths. (Default: 0.)
  128. .LP
  129. .TP
  130. \fBConstrainedSockSize \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fP
  131. When \fBConstrainedSockets\fP is enabled the receive and transmit buffers for
  132. all sockets will be set to this limit. Must be a value between 2048
  133. and 262144, in 1024 byte increments. Default of 8192 is recommended.
  134. .LP
  135. .TP
  136. \fBControlPort \fR\fIPort\fP
  137. If set, Tor will accept connections on this port and allow those
  138. connections to control the Tor process using the Tor Control Protocol
  139. (described in control-spec.txt). Note: unless you also specify one of
  140. \fBHashedControlPassword\fP or \fBCookieAuthentication\fP, setting
  141. this option will cause Tor to allow any process on the local host to
  142. control it. This option is required for many Tor controllers; most use
  143. the value of 9051.
  144. .LP
  145. .TP
  146. \fBControlListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  147. Bind the controller listener to this address. If you specify a port,
  148. bind to this port rather than the one specified in ControlPort. We
  149. strongly recommend that you leave this alone unless you know what you're
  150. doing, since giving attackers access to your control listener is really
  151. dangerous. (Default: 127.0.0.1)
  152. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
  153. addresses/ports.
  154. .LP
  155. .TP
  156. \fBControlSocket \fR\fIPath\fP
  157. Like ControlPort, but listens on a Unix domain socket, rather than a TCP
  158. socket. (Unix and Unix-like systems only.)
  159. .LP
  160. .TP
  161. \fBHashedControlPassword \fR\fIhashed_password\fP
  162. Don't allow any connections on the control port except when the other process
  163. knows the password whose one-way hash is \fIhashed_password\fP. You can
  164. compute the hash of a password by running "tor --hash-password
  165. \fIpassword\fP". You can provide several acceptable passwords by using
  166. more than HashedControlPassword line.
  167. .LP
  168. .TP
  169. \fBCookieAuthentication \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  170. If this option is set to 1, don't allow any connections on the control port
  171. except when the connecting process knows the contents of a file named
  172. "control_auth_cookie", which Tor will create in its data directory. This
  173. authentication method should only be used on systems with good filesystem
  174. security. (Default: 0)
  175. .LP
  176. .TP
  177. \fBCookieAuthFile \fR\fIPath\fP
  178. If set, this option overrides the default location and file name for Tor's
  179. cookie file. (See CookieAuthentication above.)
  180. .LP
  181. .TP
  182. \fBCookieAuthFileGroupReadable \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR|\fIGroupName\fP
  183. If this option is set to 0, don't allow the filesystem group to read
  184. the cookie file. If the option is set to 1, make the cookie file
  185. readable by the default GID. [Making the file readable by other
  186. groups is not yet implemented; let us know if you need this for some
  187. reason.] (Default: 0).
  188. .LP
  189. .TP
  190. \fBDataDirectory \fR\fIDIR\fP
  191. Store working data in DIR (Default: @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor)
  192. .LP
  193. .TP
  194. \fBDirServer \fR[\fInickname\fR] [\fBflags\fR] \fIaddress\fR\fB:\fIport fingerprint\fP
  195. Use a nonstandard authoritative directory server at the provided
  196. address and port, with the specified key fingerprint. This option can
  197. be repeated many times, for multiple authoritative directory
  198. servers. Flags are separated by spaces, and determine what kind of an
  199. authority this directory is. By default, every authority is authoritative
  200. for current ("v2")-style directories, unless the "no-v2" flag is given. If the "v1" flags is provided, Tor will use this server as an
  201. authority for old-style (v1) directories as well. (Only directory mirrors
  202. care about this.) Tor will use this server as an authority for hidden
  203. service information if the "hs" flag is set, or if the "v1" flag is set and
  204. the "no-hs" flag is \fBnot\fP set. Tor will use this authority as a bridge
  205. authoritative directory if the "bridge" flag is set. If a flag
  206. "orport=\fBport\fR" is given, Tor will use the given port when opening
  207. encrypted tunnels to the dirserver. Lastly, if a flag "v3ident=\fBfp\fR" is
  208. given, the dirserver is a v3 directory authority whose v3 long-term
  209. signing key has the fingerprint \fBfp\fR.
  210. If no \fBdirserver\fP line is given, Tor will use the default
  211. directory servers. NOTE: this option is intended
  212. for setting up a private Tor network with its own directory authorities. If
  213. you use it, you will be distinguishable from other users, because you won't
  214. believe the same authorities they do.
  215. .LP
  216. .TP
  217. \fBAlternateDirAuthority \fR[\fInickname\fR] [\fBflags\fR] \fIaddress\fR\fB:\fIport fingerprint\fP
  218. .LP
  219. .TP
  220. \fBAlternateHSAuthority \fR[\fInickname\fR] [\fBflags\fR] \fIaddress\fR\fB:\fIport fingerprint\fP
  221. .LP
  222. .TP
  223. \fBAlternateBridgeAuthority \fR[\fInickname\fR] [\fBflags\fR] \fIaddress\fR\fB:\fIport fingerprint\fP
  224. As DirServer, but replaces less of the default directory authorities.
  225. Using AlternateDirAuthority replaces the default Tor directory
  226. authorities, but leaves the hidden service authorities and bridge
  227. authorities in place. Similarly, Using AlternateHSAuthority replaces
  228. the default hidden service authorities, but not the directory or
  229. bridge authorities.
  230. .LP
  231. .TP
  232. \fBDisableAllSwap \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  233. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all current and future memory pages.
  234. On supported platforms, this should effectively disable any and all attempts
  235. to page out memory. Under the hood, DisableAllSwap uses mlockall() on unix-like
  236. platforms. Windows is currently unsupported. We believe that this feature works
  237. on modern Gnu/Linux distributions. Mac OS X appears to be broken by design. On
  238. reasonable *BSD systems it should also be supported but this is untested. This
  239. option requires that you start your Tor as root. If you use DisableAllSwap,
  240. please consider using the User option to properly reduce the privileges of
  241. your Tor.
  242. (Default: 0)
  243. .LP
  244. .TP
  245. \fBFetchDirInfoEarly \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  246. If set to 1, Tor will always fetch directory information like other
  247. directory caches, even if you don't meet the normal criteria for
  248. fetching early. Normal users should leave it off.
  249. (Default: 0)
  250. .LP
  251. .TP
  252. \fBFetchDirInfoExtraEarly \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  253. If set to 1, Tor will fetch directory information before other
  254. directory caches. It will attempt to download directory information closer to
  255. the start of the consensus period. Normal users should leave it off.
  256. (Default: 0)
  257. .LP
  258. .TP
  259. \fBFetchHidServDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  260. If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any hidden service descriptors from
  261. the rendezvous directories. This option is only useful if you're using
  262. a Tor controller that handles hidden service fetches for you.
  263. (Default: 1)
  264. .LP
  265. .TP
  266. \fBFetchServerDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  267. If set to 0, Tor will never fetch any network status summaries or server
  268. descriptors from the directory servers. This option is only useful if
  269. you're using a Tor controller that handles directory fetches for you.
  270. (Default: 1)
  271. .LP
  272. .TP
  273. \fBFetchUselessDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  274. If set to 1, Tor will fetch every non-obsolete descriptor from the
  275. authorities that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching
  276. useless descriptors, for example for routers that are not running.
  277. This option is useful if you're using the contributed "exitlist"
  278. script to enumerate Tor nodes that exit to certain addresses.
  279. (Default: 0)
  280. .LP
  281. .TP
  282. \fBHTTPProxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP
  283. Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port
  284. (or host:80 if port is not specified),
  285. rather than connecting directly to any directory servers.
  286. .LP
  287. .TP
  288. \fBHTTPProxyAuthenticator\fR \fIusername:password\fP
  289. If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic HTTP proxy
  290. authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of
  291. HTTP proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a
  292. patch if you want it to support others.
  293. .LP
  294. .TP
  295. \fBHTTPSProxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP
  296. Tor will make all its OR (SSL) connections through this host:port
  297. (or host:443 if port is not specified), via HTTP CONNECT rather than
  298. connecting directly to servers. You may want to set \fBFascistFirewall\fR
  299. to restrict the set of ports you might try to connect to, if your HTTPS
  300. proxy only allows connecting to certain ports.
  301. .LP
  302. .TP
  303. \fBHTTPSProxyAuthenticator\fR \fIusername:password\fP
  304. If defined, Tor will use this username:password for Basic HTTPS proxy
  305. authentication, as in RFC 2617. This is currently the only form of
  306. HTTPS proxy authentication that Tor supports; feel free to submit a
  307. patch if you want it to support others.
  308. .LP
  309. .TP
  310. \fBSocks4Proxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP
  311. Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 4 proxy at host:port
  312. (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
  313. .LP
  314. .TP
  315. \fBSocks5Proxy\fR \fIhost\fR[:\fIport\fR]\fP
  316. Tor will make all OR connections through the SOCKS 5 proxy at host:port
  317. (or host:1080 if port is not specified).
  318. .LP
  319. .TP
  320. \fBSocks5ProxyUsername\fR \fIusername\fP
  321. .LP
  322. .TP
  323. \fBSocks5ProxyPassword\fR \fIpassword\fP
  324. If defined, authenticate to the SOCKS 5 server using username and password
  325. in accordance to RFC 1929. Both username and password must be between 1 and 255
  326. characters.
  327. .LP
  328. .TP
  329. \fBKeepalivePeriod \fR\fINUM\fP
  330. To keep firewalls from expiring connections, send a padding keepalive
  331. cell every NUM seconds on open connections that are in use. If the
  332. connection has no open circuits, it will instead be closed after NUM
  333. seconds of idleness. (Default: 5 minutes)
  334. .LP
  335. .TP
  336. \fBLog \fR\fIminSeverity\fR[-\fImaxSeverity\fR] \fBstderr\fR|\fBstdout\fR|\fBsyslog\fR\fP
  337. Send all messages between \fIminSeverity\fR and \fImaxSeverity\fR to
  338. the standard output stream, the standard error stream, or to the system
  339. log. (The "syslog" value is only supported on Unix.) Recognized
  340. severity levels are debug, info, notice, warn, and err. We advise using
  341. "notice" in most cases, since anything more verbose may provide sensitive
  342. information to an attacker who obtains the logs. If only one
  343. severity level is given, all messages of that level or higher will be
  344. sent to the listed destination.
  345. .LP
  346. .TP
  347. \fBLog \fR\fIminSeverity\fR[-\fImaxSeverity\fR] \fBfile\fR \fIFILENAME\fP
  348. As above, but send log messages to the listed filename. The "Log"
  349. option may appear more than once in a configuration file. Messages
  350. are sent to all the logs that match their severity level.
  351. .LP
  352. .TP
  353. \fBOutboundBindAddress \fR\fIIP\fP
  354. Make all outbound connections originate from the IP address specified. This
  355. is only useful when you have multiple network interfaces, and you want all
  356. of Tor's outgoing connections to use a single one.
  357. .LP
  358. .TP
  359. \fBPidFile \fR\fIFILE\fP
  360. On startup, write our PID to FILE. On clean shutdown, remove FILE.
  361. .LP
  362. .TP
  363. \fBProtocolWarnings \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  364. If 1, Tor will log with severity 'warn' various cases of other parties
  365. not following the Tor specification. Otherwise, they are logged with
  366. severity 'info'. (Default: 0)
  367. .LP
  368. .TP
  369. \fBRunAsDaemon \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  370. If 1, Tor forks and daemonizes to the background. This option has
  371. no effect on Windows; instead you should use the --service command-line
  372. option. (Default: 0)
  373. .LP
  374. .TP
  375. \fBSafeLogging \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  376. If 1, Tor replaces potentially sensitive strings in the logs
  377. (e.g. addresses) with the string [scrubbed]. This way logs can still be
  378. useful, but they don't leave behind personally identifying information
  379. about what sites a user might have visited. (Default: 1)
  380. .LP
  381. .TP
  382. \fBUser \fR\fIUID\fP
  383. On startup, setuid to this user and setgid to their primary group.
  384. .LP
  385. .TP
  386. \fBHardwareAccel \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  387. If non-zero, try to use built-in (static) crypto hardware acceleration when
  388. available. (Default: 0)
  389. .LP
  390. .TP
  391. \fBAccelName \fR\fINAME\fP
  392. When using OpenSSL hardware crypto acceleration attempt to load the dynamic
  393. engine of this name. This must be used for any dynamic hardware engine. Names
  394. can be verified with the openssl engine command.
  395. .LP
  396. .TP
  397. \fBAccelDir \fR\fIDIR\fP
  398. Specify this option if using dynamic hardware acceleration and the engine
  399. implementation library resides somewhere other than the OpenSSL default.
  400. .LP
  401. .TP
  402. \fBAvoidDiskWrites \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  403. If non-zero, try to write to disk less frequently than we would otherwise.
  404. This is useful when running on flash memory or other media that support only
  405. a limited number of writes. (Default: 0)
  406. .LP
  407. .TP
  408. \fBTunnelDirConns \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  409. If non-zero, when a directory server we contact supports it, we will
  410. build a one-hop circuit and make an encrypted connection via its
  411. ORPort. (Default: 1)
  412. .LP
  413. .TP
  414. \fBPreferTunneledDirConns \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fP
  415. If non-zero, we will avoid directory servers that don't support tunneled
  416. directory connections, when possible. (Default: 1)
  417. .SH CLIENT OPTIONS
  418. .PP
  419. The following options are useful only for clients (that is, if \fBSocksPort\fP is non-zero):
  420. .LP
  421. .TP
  422. \fBAllowInvalidNodes\fR \fBentry\fR|\fBexit\fR|\fBmiddle\fR|\fBintroduction\fR|\fBrendezvous\fR|...\fP
  423. If some Tor servers are obviously not working right, the directory
  424. authorities can manually mark them as invalid, meaning that it's not
  425. recommended you use them for entry or exit positions in your circuits. You
  426. can opt to use them in some circuit positions, though. The default is
  427. "middle,rendezvous", and other choices are not advised.
  428. .LP
  429. .TP
  430. \fBExcludeSingleHopRelays \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  431. This option controls whether circuits built by Tor will include relays with
  432. the AllowSingleHopExits flag set to true. If ExcludeSingleHopRelays is set to
  433. 0, these relays will be included. Note that these relays might be at higher
  434. risk of being seized or observed, so they are not normally included.
  435. (Default: 1)
  436. .LP
  437. .TP
  438. \fBBridge \fR\fIIP:ORPort\fR [fingerprint]\fP
  439. When set along with UseBridges, instructs Tor to use the relay at
  440. "IP:ORPort" as a "bridge" relaying into the Tor network. If "fingerprint"
  441. is provided (using the same format as for DirServer), we will verify that
  442. the relay running at that location has the right fingerprint. We also use
  443. fingerprint to look up the bridge descriptor at the bridge authority, if
  444. it's provided and if UpdateBridgesFromAuthority is set too.
  445. .LP
  446. .TP
  447. \fBCircuitBuildTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP
  448. Try for at most NUM seconds when building circuits. If the circuit
  449. isn't open in that time, give up on it.
  450. (Default: 1 minute.)
  451. .LP
  452. .TP
  453. \fBCircuitIdleTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP
  454. If we have kept a clean (never used) circuit around for NUM seconds,
  455. then close it. This way when the Tor client is entirely idle, it can
  456. expire all of its circuits, and then expire its TLS connections. Also,
  457. if we end up making a circuit that is not useful for exiting any of
  458. the requests we're receiving, it won't forever take up a slot in the
  459. circuit list.
  460. (Default: 1 hour.)
  461. .LP
  462. .TP
  463. \fBCircuitStreamTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP
  464. If non-zero, this option overrides our internal timeout schedule for
  465. how many seconds until we detach a stream from a circuit and try a new
  466. circuit. If your network is particularly slow, you might want to set
  467. this to a number like 60. (Default: 0)
  468. .LP
  469. .TP
  470. \fBClientOnly \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  471. If set to 1, Tor will under no circumstances run as a server or serve
  472. directory requests. The default
  473. is to run as a client unless ORPort is configured. (Usually,
  474. you don't need to set this; Tor is pretty smart at figuring out whether
  475. you are reliable and high-bandwidth enough to be a useful server.)
  476. (Default: 0)
  477. .LP
  478. .TP
  479. \fBExcludeNodes \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  480. A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address patterns
  481. of nodes to never use when building a circuit. (Example: ExcludeNodes
  482. SlowServer, $ABCDEFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF, {cc}, 255.254.0.0/8)
  483. .LP
  484. .TP
  485. \fBExcludeExitNodes \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  486. A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address patterns
  487. of nodes to never use when picking an exit node. Note that any node
  488. listed in ExcludeNodes is automatically considered to be part of this
  489. list.
  490. .LP
  491. .TP
  492. \fBEntryNodes \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  493. A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address patterns
  494. of nodes to use for the first hop in the circuit.
  495. These are treated only as preferences unless StrictEntryNodes (see
  496. below) is also set.
  497. .LP
  498. .TP
  499. \fBExitNodes \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  500. A list of identity fingerprints, nicknames, country codes and address patterns
  501. of nodes to use for the last hop in the circuit.
  502. These are treated only as preferences unless StrictExitNodes (see
  503. below) is also set.
  504. .LP
  505. .TP
  506. \fBStrictEntryNodes \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  507. If 1, Tor will never use any nodes besides those listed in "EntryNodes" for
  508. the first hop of a circuit.
  509. .LP
  510. .TP
  511. \fBStrictExitNodes \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  512. If 1, Tor will never use any nodes besides those listed in "ExitNodes" for
  513. the last hop of a circuit.
  514. .LP
  515. .TP
  516. \fBFascistFirewall \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  517. If 1, Tor will only create outgoing connections to ORs running on ports that
  518. your firewall allows (defaults to 80 and 443; see \fBFirewallPorts\fR). This will
  519. allow you to run Tor as a client behind a firewall with restrictive policies,
  520. but will not allow you to run as a server behind such a firewall.
  521. If you prefer more fine-grained control, use ReachableAddresses instead.
  522. .LP
  523. .TP
  524. \fBFirewallPorts \fR\fIPORTS\fP
  525. A list of ports that your firewall allows you to connect to. Only
  526. used when \fBFascistFirewall\fR is set. This option is deprecated; use
  527. ReachableAddresses instead. (Default: 80, 443)
  528. .LP
  529. .TP
  530. \fBHidServAuth \fR\fIonion-address\fR \fIauth-cookie\fP [\fIservice-name\fR]
  531. Client authorization for a hidden service. Valid onion addresses contain 16
  532. characters in a-z2-7 plus ".onion", and valid auth cookies contain 22
  533. characters in A-Za-z0-9+/. The service name is only used for internal
  534. purposes, e.g., for Tor controllers. This option may be used multiple times
  535. for different hidden services. If a hidden service uses authorization and
  536. this option is not set, the hidden service is not accessible. Hidden
  537. services can be configured to require authorization using the
  538. \fBHiddenServiceAuthorizeClient\fR option.
  539. .LP
  540. .TP
  541. \fBReachableAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP
  542. A comma-separated list of IP addresses and ports that your firewall allows you
  543. to connect to. The format is as
  544. for the addresses in ExitPolicy, except that "accept" is understood
  545. unless "reject" is explicitly provided. For example, 'ReachableAddresses
  546. 99.0.0.0/8, reject 18.0.0.0/8:80, accept *:80' means that your
  547. firewall allows connections to everything inside net 99, rejects port
  548. 80 connections to net 18, and accepts connections to port 80 otherwise.
  549. (Default: 'accept *:*'.)
  550. .LP
  551. .TP
  552. \fBReachableDirAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP
  553. Like \fBReachableAddresses\fP, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey
  554. these restrictions when fetching directory information, using standard HTTP
  555. GET requests. If not set explicitly then the value of \fBReachableAddresses\fP
  556. is used. If \fBHTTPProxy\fR is set then these connections will go through that
  557. proxy.
  558. .LP
  559. .TP
  560. \fBReachableORAddresses \fR\fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP][:\fIPORT\fP]...\fP
  561. Like \fBReachableAddresses\fP, a list of addresses and ports. Tor will obey
  562. these restrictions when connecting to Onion Routers, using TLS/SSL. If not set
  563. explicitly then the value of \fBReachableAddresses\fP is used. If
  564. \fBHTTPSProxy\fR is set then these connections will go through that proxy.
  565. The separation between \fBReachableORAddresses\fP and
  566. \fBReachableDirAddresses\fP is only interesting when you are connecting through
  567. proxies (see \fBHTTPProxy\fR and \fBHTTPSProxy\fR). Most proxies limit TLS
  568. connections (which Tor uses to connect to Onion Routers) to port 443, and some
  569. limit HTTP GET requests (which Tor uses for fetching directory information) to
  570. port 80.
  571. .LP
  572. .TP
  573. \fBLongLivedPorts \fR\fIPORTS\fP
  574. A list of ports for services that tend to have long-running connections
  575. (e.g. chat and interactive shells). Circuits for streams that use these
  576. ports will contain only high-uptime nodes, to reduce the chance that a
  577. node will go down before the stream is finished.
  578. (Default: 21, 22, 706, 1863, 5050, 5190, 5222, 5223, 6667, 6697, 8300)
  579. .LP
  580. .TP
  581. \fBMapAddress\fR \fIaddress\fR \fInewaddress\fR
  582. When a request for address arrives to Tor, it will rewrite it to
  583. newaddress before processing it. For example, if you always want
  584. connections to www.indymedia.org to exit via \fItorserver\fR (where
  585. \fItorserver\fR is the nickname of the server),
  586. use "MapAddress www.indymedia.org www.indymedia.org.torserver.exit".
  587. .LP
  588. .TP
  589. \fBNewCircuitPeriod \fR\fINUM\fP
  590. Every NUM seconds consider whether to build a new circuit. (Default: 30 seconds)
  591. .LP
  592. .TP
  593. \fBMaxCircuitDirtiness \fR\fINUM\fP
  594. Feel free to reuse a circuit that was first used at most NUM seconds ago,
  595. but never attach a new stream to a circuit that is too old.
  596. (Default: 10 minutes)
  597. .LP
  598. .TP
  599. \fBNodeFamily \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  600. The Tor servers, defined by their identity fingerprints or nicknames,
  601. constitute a "family" of similar or co-administered
  602. servers, so never use any two of them in the same circuit. Defining a
  603. NodeFamily is only needed when a server doesn't list the family itself
  604. (with MyFamily). This option can be used multiple times.
  605. .LP
  606. .TP
  607. \fBEnforceDistinctSubnets \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  608. If 1, Tor will not put two servers whose IP addresses are "too
  609. close" on the same circuit. Currently, two addresses are
  610. "too close" if they lie in the same /16 range. (Default: 1)
  611. .\" \fBPathlenCoinWeight \fR\fI0.0-1.0\fP
  612. .\" Paths are 3 hops plus a geometric distribution centered around this coinweight.
  613. .\" Must be >=0.0 and <1.0. (Default: 0.3) NOT USED CURRENTLY
  614. .\" .TP
  615. .LP
  616. .TP
  617. \fBSocksPort \fR\fIPORT\fP
  618. Advertise this port to listen for connections from Socks-speaking
  619. applications. Set this to 0 if you don't want to allow application
  620. connections. (Default: 9050)
  621. .LP
  622. .TP
  623. \fBSocksListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  624. Bind to this address to listen for connections from Socks-speaking
  625. applications. (Default: 127.0.0.1) You can also specify a port
  626. (e.g. 192.168.0.1:9100).
  627. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
  628. addresses/ports.
  629. .LP
  630. .TP
  631. \fBSocksPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP
  632. Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the
  633. SocksPort and DNSPort ports.
  634. The policies have the same form as exit policies below.
  635. .LP
  636. .TP
  637. \fBSocksTimeout \fR\fINUM\fP
  638. Let a socks connection wait NUM seconds handshaking, and NUM seconds
  639. unattached waiting for an appropriate circuit, before we fail it.
  640. (Default: 2 minutes.)
  641. .LP
  642. .TP
  643. \fBTrackHostExits \fR\fIhost\fR,\fI.domain\fR,\fI...\fR\fP
  644. For each value in the comma separated list, Tor will track recent connections
  645. to hosts that match this value and attempt to
  646. reuse the same exit node for each. If the value is prepended with a '.', it is
  647. treated as matching an entire domain. If one of the values is just a '.', it
  648. means match everything. This option is useful if you frequently connect to
  649. sites that will expire all your authentication cookies (i.e. log you out) if
  650. your IP address changes. Note that this option does have the disadvantage of
  651. making it more clear that a given history is
  652. associated with a single user. However, most people who would wish to observe
  653. this will observe it through cookies or other protocol-specific means anyhow.
  654. .LP
  655. .TP
  656. \fBTrackHostExitsExpire \fR\fINUM\fP
  657. Since exit servers go up and down, it is desirable to expire the association
  658. between host and exit server after NUM seconds. The default
  659. is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
  660. .LP
  661. .TP
  662. \fBUpdateBridgesFromAuthority \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  663. When set (along with UseBridges), Tor will try to fetch bridge descriptors
  664. from the configured bridge authorities when feasible. It will fall back
  665. to a direct request if the authority responds with a 404. (Default: 0)
  666. .LP
  667. .TP
  668. \fBUseBridges \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  669. When set, Tor will fetch descriptors for each bridge listed in the
  670. "Bridge" config lines, and use these relays as both entry guards and
  671. directory guards. (Default: 0)
  672. .LP
  673. .TP
  674. \fBUseEntryGuards \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  675. If this option is set to 1, we pick a few long-term entry servers, and
  676. try to stick with them. This is desirable because
  677. constantly changing servers increases the odds that an adversary who owns
  678. some servers will observe a fraction of your paths.
  679. (Defaults to 1.)
  680. .LP
  681. .TP
  682. \fBNumEntryGuards \fR\fINUM\fP
  683. If UseEntryGuards is set to 1, we will try to pick a total of NUM routers
  684. as long-term entries for our circuits.
  685. (Defaults to 3.)
  686. .LP
  687. .TP
  688. \fBSafeSocks \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  689. When this option is enabled, Tor will reject application connections that
  690. use unsafe variants of the socks protocol -- ones that only provide an
  691. IP address, meaning the application is doing a DNS resolve first.
  692. Specifically, these are socks4 and socks5 when not doing remote DNS.
  693. (Defaults to 0.)
  694. .LP
  695. .TP
  696. \fBTestSocks \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  697. When this option is enabled, Tor will make a notice-level log entry for
  698. each connection to the Socks port indicating whether the request used
  699. a safe socks protocol or an unsafe one (see above entry on SafeSocks).
  700. This helps to determine whether an application using Tor is possibly
  701. leaking DNS requests.
  702. (Default: 0)
  703. .LP
  704. .TP
  705. \fBVirtualAddrNetwork \fR\fIAddress\fB/\fIbits\fP
  706. When a controller asks for a virtual (unused) address with the
  707. MAPADDRESS command, Tor picks an unassigned address from this range.
  708. (Default: 127.192.0.0/10)
  709. When providing proxy server service to a network of computers using a tool like
  710. dns-proxy-tor,
  711. change this address to "10.192.0.0/10" or "172.16.0.0/12".
  712. The default \fBVirtualAddrNetwork\fP address range on a
  713. properly configured machine will route to the loopback interface.
  714. For local use, no change to the
  715. default \fBVirtualAddrNetwork\fP setting is needed.
  716. .LP
  717. .TP
  718. \fBAllowNonRFC953Hostnames \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  719. When this option is disabled, Tor blocks hostnames containing illegal
  720. characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an exit node to be
  721. resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve URLs and so on.
  722. (Default: 0)
  723. .LP
  724. .TP
  725. \fBAllowDotExit \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  726. If enabled, we convert "www.google.com.foo.exit" addresses on the
  727. SocksPort/TransPort/NatdPort into "www.google.com" addresses that exit
  728. from the node "foo". Disabled by default since attacking websites and
  729. exit relays can use it to manipulate your path selection. (Default: 0)
  730. .LP
  731. .TP
  732. \fBFastFirstHopPK \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  733. When this option is disabled, Tor uses the public key step for the first
  734. hop of creating circuits. Skipping it is generally safe since we have
  735. already used TLS to authenticate the relay and to establish forward-secure
  736. keys. Turning this option off makes circuit building slower.
  737. Note that Tor will always use the public key step for the first hop if
  738. it's operating as a relay, and it will never use the public key step if
  739. it doesn't yet know the onion key of the first hop.
  740. (Default: 1)
  741. .LP
  742. .TP
  743. \fBTransPort\fP \fR\fIPORT\fP
  744. If non-zero, enables transparent proxy support on \fR\fIPORT\fP (by
  745. convention, 9040).
  746. .\" This is required to enable support for \fBdns-proxy-tor\fP.
  747. .\" ControlPort must be set when using \fBTransPort\fP.
  748. Requires OS support for transparent proxies, such as BSDs' pf or
  749. Linux's IPTables.
  750. If you're planning
  751. to use Tor as a transparent proxy for a network, you'll want to examine
  752. and change VirtualAddrNetwork from the default setting. You'll also want
  753. to set the TransListenAddress option for the network you'd like to proxy.
  754. (Default: 0).
  755. .LP
  756. .TP
  757. \fBTransListenAddress\fP \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  758. Bind to this address to listen for transparent proxy connections.
  759. (Default: 127.0.0.1).
  760. This is useful for exporting a transparent proxy server
  761. to an entire network.
  762. .LP
  763. .TP
  764. \fBNATDPort\fP \fR\fIPORT\fP
  765. Allow old versions of ipfw (as included in old versions of FreeBSD,
  766. etc.) to send connections through Tor using the NATD protocol.
  767. This option is only for people who cannot
  768. use TransPort.
  769. .LP
  770. .TP
  771. \fBNATDListenAddress\fP \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  772. Bind to this address to listen for NATD connections.
  773. (Default: 127.0.0.1).
  774. .LP
  775. .TP
  776. \fBAutomapHostsOnResolve\fP \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  777. When this option is enabled, and we get a request to resolve an
  778. address that ends with one of the suffixes in
  779. \fBAutomapHostsSuffixes\fP, we map an unused virtual address to that
  780. address, and return the new virtual address. This is handy for making
  781. ".onion" addresses work with applications that resolve an address and
  782. then connect to it.
  783. (Default: 0).
  784. .LP
  785. .TP
  786. \fBAutomapHostsSuffixes\fP \fR\fISUFFIX\fR,\fISUFFIX\fR,...\fP
  787. A comma-separated list of suffixes to use with \fBAutomapHostsOnResolve\fP.
  788. The "." suffix is equivalent to "all addresses."
  789. (Default: .exit,.onion).
  790. .LP
  791. .TP
  792. \fBDNSPort\fP \fR\fIPORT\fP
  793. If non-zero, Tor listens for UDP DNS requests on this port and resolves them
  794. anonymously.
  795. (Default: 0).
  796. .LP
  797. .TP
  798. \fBDNSListenAddress\fP \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  799. Bind to this address to listen for DNS connections.
  800. (Default: 127.0.0.1).
  801. .LP
  802. .TP
  803. \fBClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses\fP \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  804. If true, Tor does not believe any anonymously retrieved DNS answer that tells
  805. it that an address resolves to an internal address (like 127.0.0.1 or
  806. 192.168.0.1). This option prevents certain browser-based attacks; don't turn
  807. it off unless you know what you're doing. (Default: 1).
  808. .LP
  809. .TP
  810. \fBDownloadExtraInfo\fP \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  811. If true, Tor downloads and caches "extra-info" documents. These
  812. documents contain information about servers other than the information
  813. in their regular router descriptors. Tor does not use this information for
  814. anything itself; to save bandwidth, leave this option turned off.
  815. (Default: 0).
  816. .LP
  817. .TP
  818. \fBFallbackNetworkstatusFile\fP \fIFILENAME\fP
  819. If Tor doesn't have a cached networkstatus file, it starts out using
  820. this one instead. Even if this file is out of date, Tor can still use
  821. it to learn about directory mirrors, so it doesn't need to put load on
  822. the authorities. (Default: None).
  823. .LP
  824. .TP
  825. \fBWarnPlaintextPorts\fP \fR\fIport\fR,\fIport\fR,\fI...\fP
  826. Tells Tor to issue a warnings whenever the user tries to make an
  827. anonymous connection to one of these ports. This option is designed
  828. to alert users to services that risk sending passwords in the clear.
  829. (Default: 23,109,110,143).
  830. .LP
  831. .TP
  832. \fBRejectPlaintextPorts\fP \fR\fIport\fR,\fIport\fR,\fI...\fP
  833. Like WarnPlaintextPorts, but instead of warning about risky port uses,
  834. Tor will instead refuse to make the connection.
  835. (Default: None).
  836. .SH SERVER OPTIONS
  837. .PP
  838. The following options are useful only for servers (that is, if \fBORPort\fP is non-zero):
  839. .LP
  840. .TP
  841. \fBAddress \fR\fIaddress\fP
  842. The IP address or fully qualified domain name of this server (e.g. moria.mit.edu). You can
  843. leave this unset, and Tor will guess your IP address.
  844. .LP
  845. .TP
  846. \fBAllowSingleHopExits \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  847. This option controls whether clients can use this server as a single hop
  848. proxy. If set to 1, clients can use this server as an exit even if it is
  849. the only hop in the circuit. (Default: 0)
  850. .LP
  851. .TP
  852. \fBAssumeReachable \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  853. This option is used when bootstrapping a new Tor network. If set to 1,
  854. don't do self-reachability testing; just upload your server descriptor
  855. immediately. If \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP is also set, this option
  856. instructs the dirserver to bypass remote reachability testing too and
  857. list all connected servers as running.
  858. .LP
  859. .TP
  860. \fBBridgeRelay \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  861. Sets the relay to act as a "bridge" with respect to relaying connections
  862. from bridge users to the Tor network. Mainly it influences how the relay
  863. will cache and serve directory information. Usually used in combination
  864. with PublishServerDescriptor.
  865. .LP
  866. .TP
  867. \fBContactInfo \fR\fIemail_address\fP
  868. Administrative contact information for server. This line might get
  869. picked up by spam harvesters, so you may want to obscure the fact
  870. that it's an email address.
  871. .LP
  872. .TP
  873. \fBExitPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP
  874. Set an exit policy for this server. Each policy is of the form
  875. "\fBaccept\fP|\fBreject\fP \fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP]\fB[:\fP\fIPORT\fP]".
  876. If \fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP is omitted then this policy just applies to the host
  877. given. Instead of giving a host or network you can also use "\fB*\fP" to
  878. denote the universe (0.0.0.0/0). \fIPORT\fP can be a single port number,
  879. an interval of ports "\fIFROM_PORT\fP\fB-\fP\fITO_PORT\fP", or "\fB*\fP".
  880. If \fIPORT\fP is omitted, that means "\fB*\fP".
  881. For example, "accept 18.7.22.69:*,reject 18.0.0.0/8:*,accept *:*" would
  882. reject any traffic destined for MIT except for web.mit.edu, and
  883. accept anything else.
  884. To specify all internal and link-local networks (including 0.0.0.0/8,
  885. 169.254.0.0/16, 127.0.0.0/8, 192.168.0.0/16, 10.0.0.0/8, and
  886. 172.16.0.0/12), you can use the "private" alias instead of an address.
  887. These addresses are rejected by default (at the beginning of your
  888. exit policy), along with your public IP address, unless you set the
  889. ExitPolicyRejectPrivate config option
  890. to 0. For example, once you've done that, you could allow HTTP to
  891. 127.0.0.1 and block all other connections to internal networks with
  892. "accept 127.0.0.1:80,reject private:*", though that may also allow
  893. connections to your own computer that are addressed to its public
  894. (external) IP address. See RFC 1918 and RFC 3330 for more
  895. details about internal and reserved IP address space.
  896. This directive can be specified multiple times so you don't have to put
  897. it all on one line.
  898. Policies are considered first to last, and the first match wins. If
  899. you want to _replace_ the default exit policy, end your exit policy with
  900. either a reject *:* or an accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_
  901. (prepending to) the default exit policy. The default exit policy is:
  902. .PD 0
  903. .RS 12
  904. .IP "reject *:25"
  905. .IP "reject *:119"
  906. .IP "reject *:135-139"
  907. .IP "reject *:445"
  908. .IP "reject *:563"
  909. .IP "reject *:1214"
  910. .IP "reject *:4661-4666"
  911. .IP "reject *:6346-6429"
  912. .IP "reject *:6699"
  913. .IP "reject *:6881-6999"
  914. .IP "accept *:*"
  915. .RE
  916. .PD
  917. .LP
  918. .TP
  919. \fBExitPolicyRejectPrivate \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  920. Reject all private (local) networks, along with your own public IP
  921. address, at the beginning of your exit
  922. policy. See above entry on ExitPolicy. (Default: 1)
  923. .LP
  924. .TP
  925. \fBMaxOnionsPending \fR\fINUM\fP
  926. If you have more than this number of onionskins queued for decrypt, reject new ones. (Default: 100)
  927. .LP
  928. .TP
  929. \fBMyFamily \fR\fInode\fR,\fInode\fR,\fI...\fP
  930. Declare that this Tor server is controlled or administered by a group
  931. or organization identical or similar to that of the other servers, defined by their identity fingerprints or nicknames.
  932. When two servers both declare that they are in the same 'family', Tor clients
  933. will not use them in the same circuit. (Each server only needs to list the
  934. other servers in its family; it doesn't need to list itself, but it won't hurt.)
  935. .LP
  936. .TP
  937. \fBNickname \fR\fIname\fP
  938. Set the server's nickname to 'name'. Nicknames must be between 1
  939. and 19 characters inclusive, and must contain only the characters
  940. [a-zA-Z0-9].
  941. .LP
  942. .TP
  943. \fBNumCPUs \fR\fInum\fP
  944. How many processes to use at once for decrypting onionskins. (Default: 1)
  945. .LP
  946. .TP
  947. \fBORPort \fR\fIPORT\fP
  948. Advertise this port to listen for connections from Tor clients and servers.
  949. .LP
  950. .TP
  951. \fBORListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  952. Bind to this IP address to listen for connections from Tor clients and
  953. servers. If you specify a port, bind to this port rather than the one
  954. specified in ORPort. (Default: 0.0.0.0)
  955. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
  956. addresses/ports.
  957. .LP
  958. .TP
  959. \fBPublishServerDescriptor \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR|\fBv1\fR|\fBv2\fR|\fBv3\fR|\fBbridge\fR|\fBhidserv\fR, ...\fP
  960. This option is only considered if you have an ORPort defined. You can
  961. choose multiple arguments, separated by commas.
  962. If set to 0, Tor will act as a server but it will not publish its
  963. descriptor to the directory authorities. (This is useful if you're
  964. testing out your server, or if you're using a Tor controller that handles
  965. directory publishing for you.) Otherwise, Tor will publish its descriptor
  966. to all directory authorities of the type(s) specified. The value "1" is
  967. the default, which means "publish to the appropriate authorities".
  968. .LP
  969. .TP
  970. \fBShutdownWaitLength\fR \fINUM\fP
  971. When we get a SIGINT and we're a server, we begin shutting down: we close
  972. listeners and start refusing new circuits. After \fBNUM\fP seconds,
  973. we exit. If we get a second SIGINT, we exit immediately. (Default:
  974. 30 seconds)
  975. .LP
  976. .TP
  977. \fBAccountingMax \fR\fIN\fR \fBbytes\fR|\fBKB\fR|\fBMB\fR|\fBGB\fR|\fBTB\fP
  978. Never send more than the specified number of bytes in a given
  979. accounting period, or receive more than that number in the period.
  980. For example, with AccountingMax set to 1 GB, a server could send 900 MB
  981. and receive 800 MB and continue running. It will only hibernate once one
  982. of the two reaches 1 GB.
  983. When the number of bytes is exhausted, Tor will hibernate until some
  984. time in the next accounting period. To prevent all servers from
  985. waking at the same time, Tor will also wait until a random point in
  986. each period before waking up. If you have bandwidth cost issues,
  987. enabling hibernation is preferable to setting a low bandwidth, since it
  988. provides users with a collection of fast servers that are up some of
  989. the time, which is more useful than a set of slow servers that are
  990. always "available".
  991. .LP
  992. .TP
  993. \fBAccountingStart \fR\fBday\fR|\fBweek\fR|\fBmonth\fR [\fIday\fR] \fIHH:MM\fR\fP
  994. Specify how long accounting periods last. If \fBmonth\fP is given,
  995. each accounting period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR on the
  996. \fIday\fRth day of one month to the same day and time of the next.
  997. (The day must be between 1 and 28.) If \fBweek\fP is given, each
  998. accounting period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR of the \fIday\fRth
  999. day of one week to the same day and time of the next week, with Monday
  1000. as day 1 and Sunday as day 7. If \fBday\fR is given, each accounting
  1001. period runs from the time \fIHH:MM\fR each day to the same time on the
  1002. next day. All times are local, and given in 24-hour time. (Defaults to
  1003. "month 1 0:00".)
  1004. .LP
  1005. .TP
  1006. \fBServerDNSResolvConfFile \fR\fIfilename\fP
  1007. Overrides the default DNS configuration with the configuration in
  1008. \fIfilename\fP. The file format is the same as the standard Unix
  1009. "\fBresolv.conf\fP" file (7). This option, like all other
  1010. ServerDNS options, only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1011. behalf of clients. (Defaults to use the system DNS configuration.)
  1012. .LP
  1013. .TP
  1014. \fBServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1015. If this option is false, Tor exits immediately if there are problems
  1016. parsing the system DNS configuration or connecting to nameservers.
  1017. Otherwise, Tor continues to periodically retry the system nameservers
  1018. until it eventually succeeds.
  1019. (Defaults to "1".)
  1020. .LP
  1021. .TP
  1022. \fBServerDNSSearchDomains \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1023. If set to \fB1\fP, then we will search for addresses in the local search
  1024. domain. For example, if this system is configured to believe it is in
  1025. "example.com", and a client tries to connect to "www", the client will be
  1026. connected to "www.example.com".
  1027. This option only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1028. behalf of clients.
  1029. (Defaults to "0".)
  1030. .LP
  1031. .TP
  1032. \fBServerDNSDetectHijacking \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1033. When this option is set to 1, we will test periodically to determine whether
  1034. our local nameservers have been configured to hijack failing DNS requests
  1035. (usually to an advertising site). If they are, we will attempt to correct
  1036. this.
  1037. This option only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1038. behalf of clients.
  1039. (Defaults to "1".)
  1040. .LP
  1041. .TP
  1042. \fBServerDNSTestAddresses \fR\fIaddress\fR,\fIaddress\fR,\fI...\fP
  1043. When we're detecting DNS hijacking, make sure that these \fIvalid\fP
  1044. addresses aren't getting redirected. If they are, then our DNS is
  1045. completely useless, and we'll reset our exit policy to "reject *:*".
  1046. This option only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1047. behalf of clients.
  1048. (Defaults to "www.google.com, www.mit.edu, www.yahoo.com,
  1049. www.slashdot.org".)
  1050. .LP
  1051. .TP
  1052. \fBServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Hostnames \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1053. When this option is disabled, Tor does not try to resolve hostnames
  1054. containing illegal characters (like @ and :) rather than sending them to an
  1055. exit node to be resolved. This helps trap accidental attempts to resolve
  1056. URLs and so on.
  1057. This option only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1058. behalf of clients.
  1059. (Default: 0)
  1060. .LP
  1061. .TP
  1062. \fBBridgeRecordUsageByCountry \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1063. When this option is enabled and BridgeRelay is also enabled, and we
  1064. have GeoIP data, Tor keeps a keep a per-country count of how many
  1065. client addresses have contacted it so that it can help the bridge
  1066. authority guess which countries have blocked access to it. (Default: 1)
  1067. .LP
  1068. .TP
  1069. \fBServerDNSRandomizeCase \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1070. When this option is set, Tor sets the case of each character randomly in
  1071. outgoing DNS requests, and makes sure that the case matches in DNS replies.
  1072. This so-called "0x20 hack" helps resist some types of DNS poisoning attack.
  1073. For more information, see "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit
  1074. Encoding".
  1075. This option only affects name lookups that your server does on
  1076. behalf of clients.
  1077. (Default: 1)
  1078. .LP
  1079. .TP
  1080. \fBGeoIPFile \fR\fIfilename\fP
  1081. A filename containing GeoIP data, for use with BridgeRecordUsageByCountry.
  1082. .LP
  1083. .TP
  1084. \fBCellStatistics \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1085. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the mean time that
  1086. cells spend in circuit queues to disk every 24 hours. Cannot be changed
  1087. while Tor is running. (Default: 0)
  1088. .LP
  1089. .TP
  1090. \fBDirReqStatistics \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1091. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the number and
  1092. response time of network status requests to disk every 24 hours. Cannot be
  1093. changed while Tor is running. (Default: 0)
  1094. .LP
  1095. .TP
  1096. \fBEntryStatistics \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1097. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the number of
  1098. directly connecting clients to disk every 24 hours. Cannot be changed
  1099. while Tor is running. (Default: 0)
  1100. .LP
  1101. .TP
  1102. \fBExitPortStatistics \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1103. When this option is enabled, Tor writes statistics on the number of
  1104. relayed bytes and opened stream per exit port to disk every 24 hours.
  1105. Cannot be changed while Tor is running. (Default: 0)
  1106. .LP
  1107. .TP
  1108. \fBExtraInfoStatistics \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1109. When this option is enabled, Tor includes previously gathered statistics
  1110. in its extra-info documents that it uploads to the directory authorities.
  1111. (Default: 0)
  1112. .SH DIRECTORY SERVER OPTIONS
  1113. .PP
  1114. The following options are useful only for directory servers (that is, if \fBDirPort\fP is non-zero):
  1115. .LP
  1116. .TP
  1117. \fBAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1118. When this option is set to 1, Tor operates as an authoritative
  1119. directory server. Instead of caching the directory, it generates its
  1120. own list of good servers, signs it, and sends that to the clients.
  1121. Unless the clients already have you listed as a trusted directory, you
  1122. probably do not want to set this option. Please coordinate with the other
  1123. admins at tor-ops@freehaven.net if you think you should be a directory.
  1124. .LP
  1125. .TP
  1126. \fBDirPortFrontPage \fIFILENAME\fP
  1127. When this option is set, it takes an HTML file and publishes it as "/" on
  1128. the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a disclaimer without needing
  1129. to set up a separate webserver. There's a sample disclaimer in
  1130. contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
  1131. .LP
  1132. .TP
  1133. \fBV1AuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1134. When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor
  1135. generates version 1 directory and running-routers documents (for legacy
  1136. Tor clients up to 0.1.0.x).
  1137. .LP
  1138. .TP
  1139. \fBV2AuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1140. When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor
  1141. generates version 2 network statuses and serves descriptors, etc as
  1142. described in doc/spec/dir-spec-v2.txt (for Tor clients and servers
  1143. running 0.1.1.x and 0.1.2.x).
  1144. .LP
  1145. .TP
  1146. \fBV3AuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1147. When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor
  1148. generates version 3 network statuses and serves descriptors, etc as
  1149. described in doc/spec/dir-spec.txt (for Tor clients and servers
  1150. running at least 0.2.0.x).
  1151. .LP
  1152. .TP
  1153. \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1154. When this option is set to 1, Tor adds information on
  1155. which versions of Tor are still believed safe for use to
  1156. the published directory. Each version 1 authority is
  1157. automatically a versioning authority; version 2 authorities
  1158. provide this service optionally. See \fBRecommendedVersions\fP,
  1159. \fBRecommendedClientVersions\fP, and \fBRecommendedServerVersions\fP.
  1160. .LP
  1161. .TP
  1162. \fBNamingAuthoritativeDirectory \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1163. When this option is set to 1, then the server advertises that it has
  1164. opinions about nickname-to-fingerprint bindings. It will include these
  1165. opinions in its published network-status pages, by listing servers with
  1166. the flag "Named" if a correct binding between that nickname and
  1167. fingerprint has been registered with the dirserver. Naming dirservers
  1168. will refuse to accept or publish descriptors that contradict a
  1169. registered binding. See \fBapproved-routers\fP in the \fBFILES\fP
  1170. section below.
  1171. .LP
  1172. .TP
  1173. \fBHSAuthoritativeDir \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1174. When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor also
  1175. accepts and serves hidden service descriptors. (Default: 0)
  1176. .LP
  1177. .TP
  1178. \fBHSAuthorityRecordStats \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1179. When this option is set in addition to \fBHSAuthoritativeDir\fP, Tor
  1180. periodically (every 15 minutes) writes statistics about hidden service
  1181. usage to a file \fBhsusage\fP in its data directory. (Default: 0)
  1182. .LP
  1183. .TP
  1184. \fBHidServDirectoryV2 \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1185. When this option is set, Tor accepts and serves v2 hidden service
  1186. descriptors. Setting DirPort is not required for this, because clients
  1187. connect via the ORPort by default. (Default: 1)
  1188. .LP
  1189. .TP
  1190. \fBBridgeAuthoritativeDir \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1191. When this option is set in addition to \fBAuthoritativeDirectory\fP, Tor
  1192. accepts and serves router descriptors, but it caches and serves the main
  1193. networkstatus documents rather than generating its own. (Default: 0)
  1194. .LP
  1195. .TP
  1196. \fBMinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2 \fR\fIN\fR \fBseconds\fR|\fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fR|\fBdays\fR|\fBweeks\fP
  1197. Minimum uptime of a v2 hidden service directory to be accepted as such by
  1198. authoritative directories. (Default: 24 hours)
  1199. .LP
  1200. .TP
  1201. \fBDirPort \fR\fIPORT\fP
  1202. Advertise the directory service on this port.
  1203. .LP
  1204. .TP
  1205. \fBDirListenAddress \fR\fIIP\fR[:\fIPORT\fR]\fP
  1206. Bind the directory service to this address. If you specify a port, bind
  1207. to this port rather than the one specified in DirPort. (Default: 0.0.0.0)
  1208. This directive can be specified multiple times to bind to multiple
  1209. addresses/ports.
  1210. .LP
  1211. .TP
  1212. \fBDirPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP
  1213. Set an entrance policy for this server, to limit who can connect to the
  1214. directory ports.
  1215. The policies have the same form as exit policies above.
  1216. .SH DIRECTORY AUTHORITY SERVER OPTIONS
  1217. .PP
  1218. .LP
  1219. .TP
  1220. \fBRecommendedVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP
  1221. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed
  1222. to be safe. The list is included in each directory, and nodes which
  1223. pull down the directory learn whether they need to upgrade. This
  1224. option can appear multiple times: the values from multiple lines are
  1225. spliced together.
  1226. When this is set then
  1227. \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too.
  1228. .LP
  1229. .TP
  1230. \fBRecommendedClientVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP
  1231. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed
  1232. to be safe for clients to use. This information is included in version 2
  1233. directories. If this is not set then the value of \fBRecommendedVersions\fR
  1234. is used.
  1235. When this is set then
  1236. \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too.
  1237. .LP
  1238. .TP
  1239. \fBRecommendedServerVersions \fR\fISTRING\fP
  1240. STRING is a comma-separated list of Tor versions currently believed
  1241. to be safe for servers to use. This information is included in version 2
  1242. directories. If this is not set then the value of \fBRecommendedVersions\fR
  1243. is used.
  1244. When this is set then
  1245. \fBVersioningAuthoritativeDirectory\fP should be set too.
  1246. .LP
  1247. .TP
  1248. \fBConsensusParams \fR\fISTRING\fP
  1249. STRING is a space-separated list of key=value pairs that Tor will
  1250. include in the "params" line of its networkstatus vote.
  1251. .LP
  1252. .TP
  1253. \fBDirAllowPrivateAddresses \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1254. If set to 1, Tor will accept router descriptors with arbitrary "Address"
  1255. elements. Otherwise, if the address is not an IP address or is a private
  1256. IP address, it will reject the router descriptor. Defaults to 0.
  1257. .LP
  1258. .TP
  1259. \fBAuthDirBadDir \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP
  1260. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1261. will be listed as bad directories in any network status document this authority
  1262. publishes, if \fBAuthDirListBadDirs\fR is set.
  1263. .LP
  1264. .TP
  1265. \fBAuthDirBadExit \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP
  1266. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1267. will be listed as bad exits in any network status document this authority
  1268. publishes, if \fBAuthDirListBadExits\fR is set.
  1269. .LP
  1270. .TP
  1271. \fBAuthDirInvalid \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP
  1272. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1273. will never be listed as "valid" in any network status document that this
  1274. authority publishes.
  1275. .LP
  1276. .TP
  1277. \fBAuthDirReject \fR\fIAddressPattern\fR...\fP
  1278. Authoritative directories only. A set of address patterns for servers that
  1279. will never be listed at all in any network status document that this
  1280. authority publishes, or accepted as an OR address in any descriptor submitted
  1281. for publication by this authority.
  1282. .LP
  1283. .TP
  1284. \fBAuthDirListBadDirs \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1285. Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, this directory has
  1286. some opinion about which nodes are unsuitable as directory caches. (Do not
  1287. set this to 1 unless you plan to list non-functioning directories as bad;
  1288. otherwise, you are effectively voting in favor of every declared directory.)
  1289. .LP
  1290. .TP
  1291. \fBAuthDirListBadExits \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1292. Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, this directory has
  1293. some opinion about which nodes are unsuitable as exit nodes. (Do not
  1294. set this to 1 unless you plan to list non-functioning exits as bad;
  1295. otherwise, you are effectively voting in favor of every declared exit
  1296. as an exit.)
  1297. .LP
  1298. .TP
  1299. \fBAuthDirRejectUnlisted \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1300. Authoritative directories only. If set to 1, the directory server
  1301. rejects all uploaded server descriptors that aren't explicitly listed
  1302. in the fingerprints file. This acts as a "panic button" if we get
  1303. hit with a Sybil attack. (Default: 0)
  1304. .LP
  1305. .TP
  1306. \fBAuthDirMaxServersPerAddr\fR \fINUM\fP
  1307. Authoritative directories only. The maximum number of servers that we
  1308. will list as acceptable on a single IP address. Set this to "0" for
  1309. "no limit". (Default: 2)
  1310. .LP
  1311. .TP
  1312. \fBAuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr\fR \fINUM\fP
  1313. Authoritative directories only. Like AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr, but
  1314. applies to addresses shared with directory authorities. (Default: 5)
  1315. .LP
  1316. .TP
  1317. \fBV3AuthVotingInterval\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1318. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred
  1319. voting interval. Note that voting will \fIactually\fP happen at an
  1320. interval chosen by consensus from all the authorities' preferred
  1321. intervals. This time SHOULD divide evenly into a day. (Default: 1 hour)
  1322. .LP
  1323. .TP
  1324. \fBV3AuthVoteDelay\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1325. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred
  1326. delay between publishing its vote and assuming it has all the votes
  1327. from all the other authorities. Note that the actual time used is not
  1328. the server's preferred time, but the consensus of all preferences.
  1329. (Default: 5 minutes.)
  1330. .LP
  1331. .TP
  1332. \fBV3AuthDistDelay\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1333. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the server's preferred
  1334. delay between publishing its consensus and signature and assuming it
  1335. has all the signatures from all the other authorities. Note that the
  1336. actual time used is not the server's preferred time, but the consensus
  1337. of all preferences. (Default: 5 minutes.)
  1338. .LP
  1339. .TP
  1340. \fBV3AuthNIntervalsValid\fR \fINUM\fP
  1341. V3 authoritative directories only. Configures the number of
  1342. VotingIntervals for which each consensus should be valid for.
  1343. Choosing high numbers increases network partitioning risks; choosing
  1344. low numbers increases directory traffic. Note that the actual number
  1345. of intervals used is not the server's preferred number, but the
  1346. consensus of all preferences. Must be at least 2. (Default: 3.)
  1347. .SH HIDDEN SERVICE OPTIONS
  1348. .PP
  1349. The following options are used to configure a hidden service.
  1350. .LP
  1351. .TP
  1352. \fBHiddenServiceDir \fR\fIDIRECTORY\fP
  1353. Store data files for a hidden service in DIRECTORY. Every hidden
  1354. service must have a separate directory. You may use this option multiple
  1355. times to specify multiple services.
  1356. .LP
  1357. .TP
  1358. \fBHiddenServicePort \fR\fIVIRTPORT \fR[\fITARGET\fR]\fP
  1359. Configure a virtual port VIRTPORT for a hidden service. You may use this
  1360. option multiple times; each time applies to the service using the most recent
  1361. hiddenservicedir. By default, this option maps the virtual port to the
  1362. same port on 127.0.0.1. You may override the target port, address, or both
  1363. by specifying a target of addr, port, or addr:port. You may also have
  1364. multiple lines with the same VIRTPORT: when a user connects to that VIRTPORT,
  1365. one of the TARGETs from those lines will be chosen at random.
  1366. .LP
  1367. .TP
  1368. \fBPublishHidServDescriptors \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1369. If set to 0, Tor will run any hidden services you configure, but it won't
  1370. advertise them to the rendezvous directory. This option is only useful
  1371. if you're using a Tor controller that handles hidserv publishing for you.
  1372. (Default: 1)
  1373. .LP
  1374. .TP
  1375. \fBHiddenServiceVersion \fR\fIversion\fR,\fIversion\fR,\fI...\fP
  1376. A list of rendezvous service descriptor versions to publish for the hidden
  1377. service. Currently, only version 2 is supported. (Default: 2)
  1378. .LP
  1379. .TP
  1380. \fBHiddenServiceAuthorizeClient \fR\fIauth-type\fR \fR\fIclient-name\fR,\fIclient-name\fR,\fI...\fP
  1381. If configured, the hidden service is accessible for authorized clients
  1382. only. The auth-type can either be 'basic' for a general-purpose
  1383. authorization protocol or 'stealth' for a less scalable protocol that also
  1384. hides service activity from unauthorized clients. Only clients that are
  1385. listed here are authorized to access the hidden service. Valid client names
  1386. are 1 to 19 characters long and only use characters in A-Za-z0-9+-_
  1387. (no spaces). If this option is set, the hidden service is not accessible
  1388. for clients without authorization any more. Generated authorization data
  1389. can be found in the hostname file. Clients need to put this authorization
  1390. data in their configuration file using \fBHidServAuth\fR.
  1391. .LP
  1392. .TP
  1393. \fBRendPostPeriod \fR\fIN\fR \fBseconds\fR|\fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fR|\fBdays\fR|\fBweeks\fP
  1394. Every time the specified period elapses, Tor uploads any rendezvous
  1395. service descriptors to the directory servers. This information is also
  1396. uploaded whenever it changes. (Default: 20 minutes)
  1397. .SH TESTING NETWORK OPTIONS
  1398. .PP
  1399. The following options are used for running a testing Tor network.
  1400. .LP
  1401. .TP
  1402. \fBTestingTorNetwork \fR\fB0\fR|\fB1\fR\fP
  1403. If set to 1, Tor adjusts default values of the configuration options below,
  1404. so that it is easier to set up a testing Tor network. May only be set if
  1405. non-default set of DirServers is set. Cannot be unset while Tor is running.
  1406. (Default: 0)
  1407. .PD 0
  1408. .RS 12
  1409. .IP "ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig 1"
  1410. .IP "DirAllowPrivateAddresses 1"
  1411. .IP "EnforceDistinctSubnets 0"
  1412. .IP "AssumeReachable 1"
  1413. .IP "AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr 0"
  1414. .IP "AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr 0"
  1415. .IP "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses 0"
  1416. .IP "ExitPolicyRejectPrivate 0"
  1417. .IP "V3AuthVotingInterval 5 minutes"
  1418. .IP "V3AuthVoteDelay 20 seconds"
  1419. .IP "V3AuthDistDelay 20 seconds"
  1420. .IP "TestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval 5 minutes"
  1421. .IP "TestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay 20 seconds"
  1422. .IP "TestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay 20 seconds"
  1423. .IP "TestingAuthDirTimeToLearnReachability 0 minutes"
  1424. .IP "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime 0 minutes"
  1425. .RE
  1426. .PD
  1427. .LP
  1428. .TP
  1429. \fBTestingV3AuthInitialVotingInterval\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1430. Like \fBV3AuthVotingInterval\fR, but for initial voting interval before the
  1431. first consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  1432. \fBTestingTorNetwork\fR is set. (Default: 30 minutes)
  1433. .LP
  1434. .TP
  1435. \fBTestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1436. Like \fBTestingV3AuthInitialVoteDelay\fR, but for initial voting interval
  1437. before the first consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  1438. \fBTestingTorNetwork\fR is set. (Default: 5 minutes)
  1439. .LP
  1440. .TP
  1441. \fBTestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1442. Like \fBTestingV3AuthInitialDistDelay\fR, but for initial voting interval
  1443. before the first consensus has been created. Changing this requires that
  1444. \fBTestingTorNetwork\fR is set. (Default: 5 minutes)
  1445. .LP
  1446. .TP
  1447. \fBTestingAuthDirTimeToLearnReachability\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1448. After starting as an authority, do not make claims about whether routers are
  1449. Running until this much time has passed.
  1450. Changing this requires that\fBTestingTorNetwork\fR is set.
  1451. (Default: 30 minutes)
  1452. .LP
  1453. .TP
  1454. \fBTestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime\fR \fR\fIN\fR \fBminutes\fR|\fBhours\fP
  1455. Clients try downloading router descriptors from directory caches after this
  1456. time. Changing this requires that \fBTestingTorNetwork\fR is set.
  1457. (Default: 10 minutes)
  1458. .\" UNDOCUMENTED
  1459. .\" ignoreversion
  1460. .SH SIGNALS
  1461. Tor catches the following signals:
  1462. .LP
  1463. .TP
  1464. \fBSIGTERM\fR
  1465. Tor will catch this, clean up and sync to disk if necessary, and exit.
  1466. .LP
  1467. .TP
  1468. \fBSIGINT\fR
  1469. Tor clients behave as with SIGTERM; but Tor servers will do a controlled
  1470. slow shutdown, closing listeners and waiting 30 seconds before exiting.
  1471. (The delay can be configured with the ShutdownWaitLength config option.)
  1472. .LP
  1473. .TP
  1474. \fBSIGHUP\fR
  1475. The signal instructs Tor to reload its configuration (including closing
  1476. and reopening logs), fetch a new directory, and kill and restart its
  1477. helper processes if applicable.
  1478. .LP
  1479. .TP
  1480. \fBSIGUSR1\fR
  1481. Log statistics about current connections, past connections, and
  1482. throughput.
  1483. .LP
  1484. .TP
  1485. \fBSIGUSR2\fR
  1486. Switch all logs to loglevel debug. You can go back to the old loglevels
  1487. by sending a SIGHUP.
  1488. .LP
  1489. .TP
  1490. \fBSIGCHLD\fR
  1491. Tor receives this signal when one of its helper processes has exited,
  1492. so it can clean up.
  1493. .LP
  1494. .TP
  1495. \fBSIGPIPE\fR
  1496. Tor catches this signal and ignores it.
  1497. .LP
  1498. .TP
  1499. \fBSIGXFSZ\fR
  1500. If this signal exists on your platform, Tor catches and ignores it.
  1501. .SH FILES
  1502. .LP
  1503. .TP
  1504. .B @CONFDIR@/torrc
  1505. The configuration file, which contains "option value" pairs.
  1506. .LP
  1507. .TP
  1508. .B @LOCALSTATEDIR@/lib/tor/
  1509. The tor process stores keys and other data here.
  1510. .LP
  1511. .TP
  1512. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/cached-status/*
  1513. The most recently downloaded network status document for each authority. Each file holds one such document; the filenames are the hexadecimal identity key fingerprints of the directory authorities.
  1514. .LP
  1515. .TP
  1516. .B \fIDataDirectory\fB/cached-descriptors\fR and \fBcached-descriptors.new\fR
  1517. These files hold downloaded router statuses. Some routers may appear more than once; if so, the most recently published descriptor is used. Lines beginning with @-signs are annotations that contain more information about a given router. The ".new" file is an append-only journal; when it gets too large, all entries are merged into a new cached-descriptors file.
  1518. .LP
  1519. .TP
  1520. .B \fIDataDirectory\fB/cached-routers\fR and \fBcached-routers.new\fR
  1521. Obsolete versions of cached-descriptors and cached-descriptors.new. When Tor can't find the newer files, it looks here instead.
  1522. .LP
  1523. .TP
  1524. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/state
  1525. A set of persistent key-value mappings. These are documented in the file. These include:
  1526. .PD 0
  1527. .RS 5
  1528. .IP "- The current entry guards and their status."
  1529. .IP "- The current bandwidth accounting values (unused so far; see below)."
  1530. .IP "- When the file was last written"
  1531. .IP "- What version of Tor generated the state file"
  1532. .IP "- A short history of bandwidth usage, as produced in the router descriptors."
  1533. .RE
  1534. .PD
  1535. .LP
  1536. .TP
  1537. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/bw_accounting
  1538. Used to track bandwidth accounting values (when the current period starts and ends; how much has been read and written so far this period). This file is obsolete, and the data is now stored in the 'state' file as well. Only used when bandwidth accounting is enabled.
  1539. .LP
  1540. .TP
  1541. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/hsusage
  1542. Used to track hidden service usage in terms of fetch and publish
  1543. requests to this hidden service authoritative directory. Only used when
  1544. recording of statistics is enabled.
  1545. .LP
  1546. .TP
  1547. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/control_auth_cookie
  1548. Used for cookie authentication with the controller. Location can be
  1549. overridden by the CookieAuthFile config option. Regenerated on startup.
  1550. See control-spec.txt for details. Only used when cookie authentication
  1551. is enabled.
  1552. .LP
  1553. .TP
  1554. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/keys/*
  1555. Only used by servers. Holds identity keys and onion keys.
  1556. .LP
  1557. .TP
  1558. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/fingerprint
  1559. Only used by servers. Holds the fingerprint of the server's identity key.
  1560. .LP
  1561. .TP
  1562. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/approved-routers
  1563. Only for naming authoritative directory servers (see \fBNamingAuthoritativeDirectory\fP). This file lists nickname to identity bindings. Each line lists a nickname and a fingerprint separated by whitespace. See your \fBfingerprint\fP file in the \fIDataDirectory\fP for an example line. If the nickname is \fB!reject\fP then descriptors from the given identity (fingerprint) are rejected by this server. If it is \fB!invalid\fP then descriptors are accepted but marked in the directory as not valid, that is, not recommended.
  1564. .LP
  1565. .TP
  1566. .B \fIDataDirectory\fP/router-stability
  1567. Only used by authoritative directory servers. Tracks measurements for router mean-time-between-failures so that authorities have a good idea of how to set their Stable flags.
  1568. .LP
  1569. .TP
  1570. .B \fIHiddenServiceDirectory\fP/hostname
  1571. The <base32-encoded-fingerprint>.onion domain name for this hidden service.
  1572. If the hidden service is restricted to authorized clients only, this file
  1573. also contains authorization data for all clients.
  1574. .LP
  1575. .TP
  1576. .B \fIHiddenServiceDirectory\fP/private_key
  1577. The private key for this hidden service.
  1578. .LP
  1579. .TP
  1580. .B \fIHiddenServiceDirectory\fP/client_keys
  1581. Authorization data for a hidden service that is only accessible by authorized
  1582. clients.
  1583. .SH SEE ALSO
  1584. .BR privoxy (1),
  1585. .BR tsocks (1),
  1586. .BR torify (1)
  1587. .BR https://www.torproject.org/
  1588. .SH BUGS
  1589. Plenty, probably. Tor is still in development. Please report them.
  1590. .SH AUTHORS
  1591. Roger Dingledine <arma@mit.edu>, Nick Mathewson <nickm@alum.mit.edu>.