[tor-relays] What fraction of Tor’s DNS traffic goes to Google and Cloudflare?

Tim Niemeyer tim at tn-x.org
Sat Jul 13 10:20:42 UTC 2019


Moin

Am Donnerstag, den 11.07.2019, 18:41 -0400 schrieb Steve Snyder:
> I find it more alarming that a single exit operator handles 13% of
> exit
> traffic than that the DNS resolution is dominated by 2 big players.
Hm.. There are two ways:

a) Others build up more exit capacity
b) The one reduces it's capacity

I, personally, prefer a).. I don't think b) is the way to go because
the capacity is needed.

Tim

> 
> Although the DNS dependencies are bad too.
> 
> 
> On 7/11/19 6:31 PM, nusenu wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > https://medium.com/@nusenu/what-fraction-of-tors-dns-traffic-goes-t
> > o-google-and-cloudflare-492229ccfd42
> > 
> > 
> > > 60.05% of the tor network’s exit capacity uses a resolver which
> > > is
> > > located in the same autonomous system as the exit relay itself
> > > (that
> > > includes localhost)  which is recommended to minimize the path
> > > between exit relay and its resolver. Lets aim to increase this
> > > fraction to above 80%.
> > > 
> > > If you are an exit operator and want to help reach this goal you
> > > can
> > > use this list to verify you are not using Google or Cloudflare
> > > resolvers. 
> > 
> > https://gist.github.com/nusenu/e6eec32679cc64ffe3e24d2b9367a931
> > 
> > > The Tor Relay Guide has instructions for setting up a
> > > local DNS resolver. 
> > 
> > https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#DNSonEx
> > itRelays
> > 
> > 
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