<div dir="ltr"><div>It's not technically required when setting up Tor, so I think a lot of people just forget about it. When I set up an exit relay, I knew I was supposed to run a local DNS server, but I completely forgot to install it until about a month later when the topic appeared in this list.<br><br></div>The other problem is that Google DNS is almost always used by default in many VPS providers. I suppose it's cheaper when they don't have to provide their own servers.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Toralf Förster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:toralf.foerster@gmx.de" target="_blank">toralf.foerster@gmx.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>
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Reading [1] I do wonder about that.<br>
Why do Tor exit relay operators avoid installing a local resolver - or at least simple a cache as shown in [2] ?<br>
Adding different nameserver= lines to /etc/resolv.conf than 8.8.8.8 shouldn't be a big thing, or ?<br>
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[1] <a href="https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-dns.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-<wbr>dns.pdf</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://zwiebeltoralf.de/<wbr>torserver.html</a><br>
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