[tor-bugs] #7570 [Tor]: Disable client-side DNS cacheing by default

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#7570: Disable client-side DNS cacheing by default
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 Reporter:  nickm                   |          Owner:                    
     Type:  enhancement             |         Status:  new               
 Priority:  major                   |      Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.4.x-final
Component:  Tor                     |        Version:                    
 Keywords:  tor-client dns prop205  |         Parent:                    
   Points:                          |   Actualpoints:                    
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 Proposal 205 discusses a proposal for making per-circuit DNS caches, but
 closes by suggesting that instead, client-side DNS cacheing simply be
 disabled.

 This is necessary for avoiding some nasty linkability enabled by IPv6, and
 is probably a good idea for IPv4 users too.

 Rather than just turn it off, I've written a branch to make it a set of
 per-client-port options, in case there's some really important reason it's
 needed.

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