[tor-relays] General overload -> DNS timeouts

[Olaf Grimm]

My big family with the same behavior; in the metrics all relays "yellow" 
after update of tor software.

Olaf

Am 17.11.21 um 19:38 schrieb Imre Jonk:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 06:25:31AM -0500, John Csuti via tor-relays wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I would have to agree on this it appears that the DNS failure timeout is
>> too low. I have more then enough bandwidth to host tor exit nodes, and
>> my own unbound full recursive relay and yet i still get the timeout
>> message 1-1.5%. Sometimes even weird amounts such as 40-50%.
>>
>> I have been working with a few people on this issue and nothing we have
>> tried has fixed this. The other thing is that all other servers i run
>> have no issue with DNS timeouts. It appears to only be a TOR issue. I
>> would even say that some DNS queries that TOR makes are to taken down
>> sites, fake sites or non-existent domains.
> 
> I've been scratching my head with this as well. My exit family is shown
> as overloaded on Tor Metrics [1]. All four instances run on one OpenBSD
> box with ~50% CPU utilization. I've tried a local Unbound resolver as
> well as the resolver provided by my colocation network, but the Tor log
> and the metrics port keep showing ~1.5% DNS timeouts. I myself don't
> notice any DNS issues, but I'm not actively monitoring it. The metrics
> port and Tor log don't show any other issues besides DNS timeouts.
> 
> I don't know what the default OpenBSD DNS timeout is. It's not
> configurable in /etc/resolv.conf, nor is it described in its man page.
> My own testing shows that an nslookup timeout takes 15 seconds.
> 
> Should I just ignore Tor Metrics saying that my relay is overloaded and
> the Tor log saying that the DNS timeouts are above threshold? I
> understand that DNS issues are really bad for UX so I want to fix this
> if possible.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Imre
> 
> [1] https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/family:1C4147BDE31ED65715FE1CF088570E145BF46AA1
> 
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