[tor-relays] Boosting throughput with own DNS resolvers

Tom van der Woerdt info at tvdw.eu
Mon Jul 20 18:08:56 UTC 2015


Seth schreef op 20/07/15 om 15:27:
> On Sun, 19 Jul 2015 13:52:32 -0700, Tom van der Woerdt <info at tvdw.eu>
> wrote:
>> 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

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