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diff --git a/doc/tor.md b/doc/tor.md index 7d134b64e0..8dc82ca91e 100644 --- a/doc/tor.md +++ b/doc/tor.md @@ -23,10 +23,9 @@ There are several ways to see your local onion address in Bitcoin Core: You may set the `-debug=tor` config logging option to have additional information in the debug log about your Tor configuration. -CLI `-addrinfo` returns the number of addresses known to your node per network -type, including Tor v2 and v3. This is useful to see how many onion addresses -are known to your node for `-onlynet=onion` and how many Tor v3 addresses it -knows when upgrading to Bitcoin Core v22.0 and up that supports Tor v3 only. +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`. ## 1. Run Bitcoin Core behind a Tor proxy @@ -57,11 +56,11 @@ outgoing connections, but more is possible. -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. - ipv4, ipv6 or onion. If you use this option with values other - than onion you *cannot* disable onion connections; outgoing onion - connections will be enabled when you use -proxy or -onion. Use - -noonion or -onion=0 if you want to be sure there are no outbound - onion connections over the default proxy or your defined -proxy. + onlynet=ipv4, onlynet=ipv6, onlynet=onion, onlynet=i2p. + Warning: if you use -onlynet with values other than onion, and + the -onion or -proxy option is set, then outgoing onion + connections will still be made; use -noonion or -onion=0 to + disable outbound onion connections in this case. In a typical situation, this suffices to run behind a Tor proxy: @@ -134,7 +133,7 @@ You can also check the group of the cookie file. On most Linux systems, the Tor auth cookie will usually be `/run/tor/control.authcookie`: ``` -stat -c '%G' /run/tor/control.authcookie +TORGROUP=$(stat -c '%G' /run/tor/control.authcookie) ``` Once you have determined the `${TORGROUP}` and selected the `${USER}` that will |