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I'm not sure how many DNS servers are configured because I never
configured them. I just installed Tor and edited the torrc file with
my port, exit policy, and bandwidth options. Where would I
add/configure DNS servers?<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/31/2016 03:08 PM, Tim
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node's consensus weight just jumped from 20 to 1750
overnight. When I checked to see how things were going, my
log file is full of nameserver problems, happening every
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Jan 31 14:12:40.000 [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have
failed<br class="">
Jan 31 14:12:40.000 [notice] eventdns: Nameserver
8.8.4.4:53 is back up<br class="">
Jan 31 14:18:35.000 [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have
failed<br class="">
Jan 31 14:18:35.000 [notice] eventdns: Nameserver
8.8.4.4:53 is back up<br class="">
Jan 31 14:20:53.000 [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have
failed<br class="">
Jan 31 14:20:53.000 [notice] eventdns: Nameserver
8.8.4.4:53 is back up<br class="">
Jan 31 14:20:59.000 [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have
failed<br class="">
Jan 31 14:20:59.000 [notice] eventdns: Nameserver
8.8.4.4:53 is back up<br class="">
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But the "All nameservers have failed" and "Nameserver xxx
is back up" messages happen in pairs <i class="">at the
exact same time.</i> What's going on here, and is there
a way to fix this? My VPS has 2 nameservers listed for it,
should I be using those?<br class="">
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<div>The times in tor logs are anonymised by rounding to the
nearest second. So these entries are close together, but not
necessarily at the same time.</div>
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<div>How many DNS servers do you have configured?</div>
<div>(It looks like it's only one. That's quite a fragile
configuration.)</div>
<div>If it fails a request by chance, but the next request
succeeds, this is the pattern of messages you'll see.</div>
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<div>Try adding a local caching resolver as the first listed
name server.</div>
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<div>You might want to add your VPS DNS servers, and Google's
other server to the end of the list, too.</div>
<div>(A benefit of using local DNS servers is that fewer
networks see your DNS requests.</div>
<div>A drawback is that your VPS company then sees your DNS
requests and your traffic, but they could do this anyway.)</div>
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