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

Peter Palfrader weasel at torproject.org
Mon Oct 17 07:49:08 UTC 2016


On Sun, 16 Oct 2016, Jesse V wrote:

> The dnscrypt repository on Github has a list of public DNS servers. I
> point my Unbound instance at one of them

Your unbound should probably just be recursive itself instead of relying
on open 3rd party nameservers.

(As for /etc/resolv.conf, I usually just put nameserver 127.0.0.1 in
there and chattr +i the file so it doesn't get munged by whatever magic
is current this year.)
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