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author | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2021-02-24 10:08:45 +0000 |
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committer | Werner Koch <[email protected]> | 2021-02-24 10:09:37 +0000 |
commit | b8998e5ee0fe3509f2240deb2996c6f20cff7116 (patch) | |
tree | c56f16f08420ee64fedb4a13a9e80bce12027109 | |
parent | sm: Silence some output on --quiet (diff) | |
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doc: Explain how Tor is detected.
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diff --git a/doc/dirmngr.texi b/doc/dirmngr.texi index 12ab2b3ee..f5a9a46a2 100644 --- a/doc/dirmngr.texi +++ b/doc/dirmngr.texi @@ -253,7 +253,10 @@ network). Certain other features are disabled in this mode. The effect of @option{--use-tor} cannot be overridden by any other command or even by reloading dirmngr. The use of @option{--no-use-tor} disables the use of Tor. The default is to use Tor if it is available -on startup or after reloading dirmngr. +on startup or after reloading dirmngr. The test on the available of +Tor is done by trying to connects to a SOCKS proxy at either port 9050 +or 9150); if another type of proxy is listening on one of these ports, +you should use @option{--no-use-tor}. @item --standard-resolver @opindex standard-resolver |