[tor-relays] Logs full of "eventdns: All nameservers have failed"

Klaus Layer klaus.layer at gmx.de
Sat Dec 10 15:39:00 UTC 2011


"Steve Snyder" <swsnyder at snydernet.net> wrote on 10.12.2011:
> 
> Yes, I also have a local caching nameserver, pointed to by the "nameserver 
>127.0.0.1" entry in /etc/resolve.conf.  Also, it seems that Tor/libevent is 
>smart enough to filter out duplicate DNS servers as 3 copies of "nameserver 
>127.0.0.1" doesn't give you more retries on the same server.
> 
> On a semi-related topic, I can now say the using BIND v9.7 greatly reduces 
>the number of these Tor entries relative to using Unbound v1.4.13.  This is 
>true with Tor 0.2.2.34 on the low (Intel Atom) and high (Xeon 56xx) ends of 
>the CPU spectrum.

I am running ubound. I increased the num-threads parameter in ubound.conf but 
that did not to help. Than I stopped unbound and installed BIND 9.7.3 but I 
don't see any difference. 

Regards,

Klaus
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