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.
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.
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 5:52 AM, Toralf Förster toralf.foerster@gmx.de wrote:
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Reading [1] I do wonder about that. Why do Tor exit relay operators avoid installing a local resolver - or at least simple a cache as shown in [2] ? Adding different nameserver= lines to /etc/resolv.conf than 8.8.8.8 shouldn't be a big thing, or ?
[1] https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-dns.pdf [2] https://zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver.html
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