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Author SHA1 Message Date
unsystemizer
3421e74601 Clarify listenonion
> This new feature is enabled by default if Bitcoin Core is listening, and a connection to Tor can be made. It can be configured with the -listenonion, -torcontrol and -torpassword settings. To show verbose debugging information, pass -debug=tor.

But it is correct to say that the feature is enabled *regardless* of whether a connection to Tor can be made.

I propose to clarify that so that users can eliminate these in their logs (when `listen=1` and no Tor).
And I think it's okay to clarify about the `listen` option, because on several occasions when I read this before I always assumed `listening` meant `server=1` which cost me a lot of time in troubleshooting.

```
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551029 tor: Error connecting to Tor control socket
2016-10-24 06:19:22.551700 tor: Not connected to Tor control port 127.0.0.1:9051, trying to reconnect
```

### What version of bitcoin-core are you using?
0.12.1
2016-10-24 15:49:46 +08:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
ac01ff22be doc: Add privacy recommendation when running hidden service 2016-09-27 15:04:40 +02:00
Nathaniel Mahieu
9e3ec74fac Clarify documentation for running a tor node
Previous wording suggested that no additional setup was required for a
tor hidden service to be created.
2016-06-17 09:27:34 -05:00
Adam Brown
3373c43505 [doc] Update port in tor.md
Tor Browser Bundle spawns the Tor process and listens on port 9150, it doesn't randomly pick a port.

[ci skip]
(cherry picked from commit 1b63cf98347b2a62915425576930f55c2126c2ff)
2016-04-05 14:54:39 +02:00
jloughry
37767fd46f fix spelling of advertise in src and doc 2016-02-12 12:51:54 -07:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
58ef0ffa9e doc: update docs for Tor listening
- add new data directory files for 0.12 to doc/files.md
- mention torcontrol in doc/tor.md
2015-11-12 18:08:50 +01:00
Mitchell Cash
99963b938f Correct spelling mistakes in doc folder
- OSX —> OS X
- XCode —> Xcode
- github —> GitHub
- homebrew —> Homebrew
- gitian —> Gitian
- Other miscellaneous obvious spelling fixes and whitespace removal
2015-10-18 06:25:43 +10:00
MarcoFalke
238851bf64 [doc] [tor] Clarify when to use bind
c.f. #6585
2015-09-06 18:17:35 +02:00
Wladimir J. van der Laan
59abcefc2e
doc: remove any mention of SOCKS4
SOCKS4 support was removed in 0127a9b, as well as the `-socks=` option.
2014-07-24 15:57:24 +02:00
Calvin Tam
5f8be1dadb Typo fix: anonimized => anonymized + infromation => information 2014-02-05 21:34:44 +11:00
Gavin Andresen
a5bba245a3 Merge pull request #2981 from gmaxwell/tor2onion
Rename -tor to -onion to better reflect what it does.
2013-10-16 20:14:46 -07:00
Gregory Maxwell
5009710994 [doc] Add testnet hidden service port to the example tor config.
Seems like there are a lot of advertised testnet HS nodes that
don't actually work. Lack of the testnet port on the example
HS config might be one reason.
2013-10-14 12:06:51 -07:00
Gregory Maxwell
102518fdb7 Rename -tor to -onion to better reflect what it does.
I've seen users confused multiple times thinking they
 should be using -tor to set their tor proxy and then
 finding in horror that they were still connecting to
 the IPv4 internet.

Even Jeff guesses wrong about what the knob does, so
 I think we should rename it. This leaves the old
 knob working, we can pull it out completely in a
 later release.
2013-09-08 04:54:06 -07:00
super3
00a8874503 Markdown Cleanup - Part 2
Now everything is in markdown...
2013-06-16 06:29:23 -04:00