[tor-dev] Tor port restriction option was removed

[Roger Dingledine]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2018 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Jonathan Marquardt wrote:
> Oh, you're right! That's weird! Was this done on purpose or is it a bug?

It was an intentional simplification of the interface. You can read the
reasoning here:

https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11405#comment:7

Our helpdesk (back when we had one) was interacting with many users who
were doing the wrong thing with the old interface.

The reasoning in short is that if 443 is one of your available ports
then your Tor will bootstrap pretty quickly anyway, and if 443 and 9001
aren't available you're probably going to need some bridge or proxy or
something in order to bootstrap.

--Roger