Would you make a recommendation of running unbound on the local exit nodes to resolve local DNS server congestion to get around this issue?

Thanks,

Conrad

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 5:30 PM, nusenu <nusenu-lists@riseup.net> wrote:
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> Dear Exit relay operators,
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> first of all thanks for running exit relays!
>
> One of the crucial service that you provide in addition to forwarding
> TCP streams is DNS resolution for tor clients.
> Exits relays which fail to resolve hostnames
> are barely useful for tor clients.
>
> We noticed that lately the failure rates did increase again and would like
> to urge you to visit Arthur's "Tor Exit DNS Timeouts"
> page that shows you the DNS error rate for exit relays:
>
> https://arthuredelstein.net/exits/
> (the page is usually updated once a day)
>
> Please consider checking your DNS if your exit relay consistently shows a non zero
> timeout rate - and make sure you run an up to date tor version.
>
> If you are an exit operator but have no (or no working) ContactInfo, please consider
> updating that field in your torrc so we can reach you if something is wrong
> with your relay.
>
> kind regards
> nusenu
>
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