[tor-relays] exit operators: overall DNS failure rate above 5% - please check your DNS

[Nathaniel Suchy]

The Tor relays guide in trac makes that recommendation.

On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 11:07 PM Conrad Rockenhaus <conrad at rockenhaus.com>
wrote:

> Would you make a recommendation of running unbound on the local exit nodes
> to resolve local DNS server congestion to get around this issue?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Conrad
>
> > On Oct 19, 2018, at 5:30 PM, nusenu <nusenu-lists at riseup.net> wrote:
> >
> > Signed PGP part
> > Dear Exit relay operators,
> >
> > (you are getting this email because you are a subscriber of the
> tor-relays mailing
> > list or because you are among the top 10 affected parties - addressed
> via BCC to protect the address)
> >
> > first of all thanks for running exit relays!
> >
> > One of the crucial service that you provide in addition to forwarding
> > TCP streams is DNS resolution for tor clients.
> > Exits relays which fail to resolve hostnames
> > are barely useful for tor clients.
> >
> > We noticed that lately the failure rates did increase again and would
> like
> > to urge you to visit Arthur's "Tor Exit DNS Timeouts"
> > page that shows you the DNS error rate for exit relays:
> >
> > https://arthuredelstein.net/exits/
> > (the page is usually updated once a day)
> >
> > Please consider checking your DNS if your exit relay consistently shows
> a non zero
> > timeout rate - and make sure you run an up to date tor version.
> >
> > If you are an exit operator but have no (or no working) ContactInfo,
> please consider
> > updating that field in your torrc so we can reach you if something is
> wrong
> > with your relay.
> >
> > kind regards
> > nusenu
> >
> > --
> > https://twitter.com/nusenu_
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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