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authorJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-03-01 21:13:22 +0100
committerJon Atack <jon@atack.com>2022-03-13 17:35:56 +0100
commit2a6fcf9c136f7a0c6ba12010ff1769acd07804cf (patch)
treec988f0c0ad22072b4e7d2bb9f164c79c67ebf016
parentcbdfb46b55a27881f3726b58c046c4ea19866b7a (diff)
init, doc: improve -onlynet help and tor/i2p documentation
and harmonize them as follows - s/outgoing/automatic outbound/ - s/Incoming/Inbound and manual/ (are not affected by this option.) - s/only through network/only to network/ - s/this option. This option/this option. It/ - s/network types/networks/ and also pick up a few nits in doc/p2p-bad-ports.md Github-Pull: bitcoin#24468 Rebased-From: a1db99a
-rw-r--r--doc/i2p.md6
-rw-r--r--doc/p2p-bad-ports.md6
-rw-r--r--doc/tor.md8
-rw-r--r--src/init.cpp2
4 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/i2p.md b/doc/i2p.md
index ee650f3999..e45b5efb9b 100644
--- a/doc/i2p.md
+++ b/doc/i2p.md
@@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ logging` for more information.
-onlynet=i2p
```
-Make outgoing connections only to I2P addresses. Incoming connections are not
-affected by this option. It can be specified multiple times to allow multiple
-network types, e.g. onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p.
+Make automatic outbound connections only to I2P addresses. Inbound and manual
+connections are not affected by this option. It can be specified multiple times
+to allow multiple networks, e.g. onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p.
I2P support was added to Bitcoin Core in version 22.0 and there may be fewer I2P
peers than Tor or IP ones. Therefore, using I2P alone without other networks may
diff --git a/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md b/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md
index 0dd7d36cf4..4f717f97a2 100644
--- a/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md
+++ b/doc/p2p-bad-ports.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
-When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections it chooses
+When Bitcoin Core automatically opens outgoing P2P connections, it chooses
a peer (address and port) from its list of potential peers. This list is
-populated with unchecked data, gossiped over the P2P network by other peers.
+populated with unchecked data gossiped over the P2P network by other peers.
A malicious actor may gossip an address:port where no Bitcoin node is listening,
or one where a service is listening that is not related to the Bitcoin network.
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ authentication are unlikely to be considered a malicious action,
e.g. port 80 (http).
Below is a list of "bad" ports which Bitcoin Core avoids when choosing a peer to
-connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive less
+connect to. If a node is listening on such a port, it will likely receive fewer
incoming connections.
1: tcpmux
diff --git a/doc/tor.md b/doc/tor.md
index 086e6747bf..b7c4f7d425 100644
--- a/doc/tor.md
+++ b/doc/tor.md
@@ -55,10 +55,10 @@ outgoing connections, but more is possible.
-seednode=X SOCKS5. In Tor mode, such addresses can also be exchanged with
other P2P nodes.
- -onlynet=onion Make outgoing connections only to .onion addresses. Incoming
- connections are not affected by this option. This option can be
- specified multiple times to allow multiple network types, e.g.
- onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p.
+ -onlynet=onion Make automatic outbound connections only to .onion addresses.
+ Inbound and manual connections are not affected by this option.
+ It can be specified multiple times to allow multiple networks,
+ e.g. onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p.
In a typical situation, this suffices to run behind a Tor proxy:
diff --git a/src/init.cpp b/src/init.cpp
index a3d53c3fae..1c17330204 100644
--- a/src/init.cpp
+++ b/src/init.cpp
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ void SetupServerArgs(ArgsManager& argsman)
argsman.AddArg("-onion=<ip:port>", "Use separate SOCKS5 proxy to reach peers via Tor onion services, set -noonion to disable (default: -proxy)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-i2psam=<ip:port>", "I2P SAM proxy to reach I2P peers and accept I2P connections (default: none)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-i2pacceptincoming", "If set and -i2psam is also set then incoming I2P connections are accepted via the SAM proxy. If this is not set but -i2psam is set then only outgoing connections will be made to the I2P network. Ignored if -i2psam is not set. Listening for incoming I2P connections is done through the SAM proxy, not by binding to a local address and port (default: 1)", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
- argsman.AddArg("-onlynet=<net>", "Make automatic outgoing connections only through network <net> (" + Join(GetNetworkNames(), ", ") + "). Incoming connections are not affected by this option. This option can be specified multiple times to allow multiple networks.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
+ argsman.AddArg("-onlynet=<net>", "Make automatic outbound connections only to network <net> (" + Join(GetNetworkNames(), ", ") + "). Inbound and manual connections are not affected by this option. It can be specified multiple times to allow multiple networks.", ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-peerbloomfilters", strprintf("Support filtering of blocks and transaction with bloom filters (default: %u)", DEFAULT_PEERBLOOMFILTERS), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-peerblockfilters", strprintf("Serve compact block filters to peers per BIP 157 (default: %u)", DEFAULT_PEERBLOCKFILTERS), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);
argsman.AddArg("-permitbaremultisig", strprintf("Relay non-P2SH multisig (default: %u)", DEFAULT_PERMIT_BAREMULTISIG), ArgsManager::ALLOW_ANY, OptionsCategory::CONNECTION);