-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 I will give running the pdns-recursor locally on the nodes a shot later the coming week. Probably can squeeze some more throughput out of it. Good tips/tweaks! On 7/19/15 10:52 PM, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:

Tim Semeijn schreef op 19/07/15 om 22:47:

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Recently I noticed my Tor Exit nodes were showing nameserver errors in the tor log and I decided to set up two private DNS resolvers (pdns-recursor). Since I use those I have seen an increase of traffic throughput on my Exit nodes to approx. 150%. I feel I am finally utilizing the resources available.

All bigger Tor relay operators will probably already do it this way, but as I myself have long been using Google DNS or other privacy-aware DNS resolvers on my nodes I just wanted to throw this out in the open.

How many of you are already using private DNS resolvers for your nodes? Any feedback/ideas about this?

- -- Tim Semeijn Babylon Network pgp 0x5B8A4DDF

All my exits run with pdns-recursor installed, because I don't want to be uploading people's DNS data to Google's search indexer :-)

I applied some tweaks to Tor and pdns :

* Disable DNS randomization (torrc: ServerDNSRandomizeCase 0) * Disable pdns packetcache (doesn't help much) and allow caching a LOT of records in the normal cache :

# recursor.conf disable-packetcache max-cache-entries=3000000 max-cache-ttl=86400

* Tor's DNS logic is a bit nasty at times... Adding your DNS server to resolv.conf twice helps :

# /etc/resolv.conf options timeout:3 nameserver 127.0.0.1 nameserver 127.0.0.2

Tom

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Seth schreef op 20/07/15 om 15:27:

On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:52:32 -0700, Tom van der Woerdt <info@tvdw.eu> wrote:

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All my exits run with pdns-recursor installed, because I don't want to be uploading people's DNS data to Google's search indexer :-)

How does pdns-recursor stack up against unbound chained with dnscrypt-proxy?

I've been running the latter but this is the first I've heard of using pdns on an exit node.

The pdns + Tor configuration tweaks were very helpful, thanks.

Well, there's a big difference between proxying DNS and running a recursor. With the proxy you're still trusting a third party with all your DNS data, with a recursor that's not the case. Tom