[or-cvs] clean up ExitPolicy documentation
Roger Dingledine
arma at seul.org
Sat Dec 11 16:13:18 UTC 2004
Update of /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc
In directory moria.mit.edu:/home2/arma/work/onion/cvs/tor/doc
Modified Files:
tor.1.in
Log Message:
clean up ExitPolicy documentation
Index: tor.1.in
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RCS file: /home2/or/cvsroot/tor/doc/tor.1.in,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -d -r1.45 -r1.46
--- tor.1.in 7 Dec 2004 06:16:14 -0000 1.45
+++ tor.1.in 11 Dec 2004 16:13:15 -0000 1.46
@@ -204,11 +204,11 @@
.TP
\fBExitPolicy \fR\fIpolicy\fR,\fIpolicy\fR,\fI...\fP
Set an exit policy for this server. Each policy is of the form
-"\fBreject\fP \fIADDR\fP\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP\fB:\fP\fIPORT\fP".
+"\fBaccept\fP|\fBreject\fP \fIADDR\fP[\fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP]\fB:\fP\fIPORT\fP".
If \fB/\fP\fIMASK\fP is omitted then this policy just applies to the host
given. Instead of giving a host or network you can also use "\fB*\fP" to
-denote the universe (0.0.0.0/0). \fIPORT\fP can either be a single port number
-or an interval of ports: "\fIFROM_PORT\fP\fB-\fP\fITO_PORT\fP".
+denote the universe (0.0.0.0/0). \fIPORT\fP can be a single port number,
+an interval of ports "\fIFROM_PORT\fP\fB-\fP\fITO_PORT\fP", or "\fB*\fP".
For example, "reject 127.0.0.1:*,reject 192.168.1.0/24:*,accept *:*" would
reject any traffic destined for localhost and any 192.168.1.* address, but
@@ -218,7 +218,10 @@
it all on one line.
See RFC 3330 for more details about internal and reserved IP address
-space. The default exit policy is:
+space. Policies are considered first to last, and the first match wins. If
+you want to _replace_ the default exit policy, end your exit policy with
+either a reject *:* or an accept *:*. Otherwise, you're _augmenting_
+(prepending to) the default exit policy. The default exit policy is:
.PD 0
.RS 12
.IP "reject 0.0.0.0/8" 0
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