[tor-relays] Some problems with new Exit Node

[teor]

> On 18 Jan 2017, at 04:24, Alan <tor-relay at clutterbuck.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, at 09:59 PM, Alan wrote:
>>> # Some problem with dns resulting in  [WARN] eventdns: All nameservers
>>> have failed - i've switched the dns to 8.8.8.8, only seen that error
>>> once
>>> since
>> 
>> Please don't use Google's DNS servers. There is plenty of material in
>> the mailing list archive on why this is a bad idea and alternatives.
> 
> Thanks for the advice, i've reverted the dns back to the one supplied by
> ovh, namely 213.186.33.99
> 
> Alan

If you are having problems with your provider's DNS servers being unable
to handle the query load, you can set up a local caching DNS resolver.

(Then you can direct that resolver to whichever DNS servers you want it
to query.)

T

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