[tor-relays] Why do 40% of Tor exits uses 8.8.8.8 for DNS resolving ?

Tristan supersluether at gmail.com
Sun Oct 16 13:22:51 UTC 2016


Maybe Tor could at least warn you when you're not using a local resolver?

On Oct 16, 2016 7:50 AM, "Ralph Seichter" <tor-relays-ml at horus-it.de> wrote:

> On 16.10.16 14:33, Tom van der Woerdt wrote:
>
> > Why doesn't Tor just link with a dns recursor, instead of relying on
> > the user to get the configuration right?
>
> It is not Tor's job to meddle with resolving DNS entries, and the notion
> of "getting it right" varies. Asking Tor operators to think about their
> resolvers is one thing, but interfering is quite a different story.
>
> -Ralph
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