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

Toralf Förster toralf.foerster at gmx.de
Tue Oct 18 15:25:14 UTC 2016


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On 10/17/2016 07:40 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
> but from the mentioned PDF I got the impression to just use the ISP
> nameservers + a local cache - which I'm trying now.

Which was not the best idea:

$ dig www.heise.de +trace

; <<>> DiG 9.10.4-P3 <<>> www.heise.de +trace
;; global options: +cmd
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached


Adding external DNS name server solved that.

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Toralf
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