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| author | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2022-03-14 10:40:40 +0100 |
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| committer | Jon Atack <jon@atack.com> | 2022-03-22 12:54:21 +0100 |
| commit | 3bf6f0cf2cb3a958e7cc346760009af50c2fa304 (patch) | |
| tree | 1132615eb7f2b73a61fcf8adc009237ea30b7e4b /doc/tor.md | |
| parent | ed15848475a10fcacaef4eeb38cd7f93ce038c47 (diff) | |
doc: update tor.md with cjdns and getnodeaddresses, fix tor grep,
and improve local addresses section
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/tor.md | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/tor.md b/doc/tor.md index b7c4f7d425..08d031d084 100644 --- a/doc/tor.md +++ b/doc/tor.md @@ -16,9 +16,9 @@ configure Tor. ## How to see information about your Tor configuration via Bitcoin Core There are several ways to see your local onion address in Bitcoin Core: -- in the debug log (grep for "tor:" or "AddLocal") -- in the output of RPC `getnetworkinfo` in the "localaddresses" section -- in the output of the CLI `-netinfo` peer connections dashboard +- in the "Local addresses" output of CLI `-netinfo` +- in the "localaddresses" output of RPC `getnetworkinfo` +- in the debug log (grep for "AddLocal"; the Tor address ends in `.onion`) You may set the `-debug=tor` config logging option to have additional information in the debug log about your Tor configuration. @@ -27,6 +27,9 @@ CLI `-addrinfo` returns the number of addresses known to your node per network. This can be useful to see how many onion peers your node knows, e.g. for `-onlynet=onion`. +To fetch a number of onion addresses that your node knows, for example seven +addresses, use the `getnodeaddresses 7 onion` RPC. + ## 1. Run Bitcoin Core behind a Tor proxy The first step is running Bitcoin Core behind a Tor proxy. This will already anonymize all @@ -58,7 +61,7 @@ outgoing connections, but more is possible. -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. + e.g. onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p, onlynet=cjdns. In a typical situation, this suffices to run behind a Tor proxy: |