Tor DNS lookups failing

[Jay Goodman Tamboli]

On Dec 3, 2006, at 23:33:04, Nick Mathewson wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:26:48AM -0500, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote:
>
>  [...]
>>       Secondly, is there anything Tor can do to
>> improve the situation, like requesting a second lookup via another
>> circuit if one reports a failure, or maybe not caching failures?
>
> The most helpful thing from my point of view would be to try to figure
> out whether there's any pattern to the failures.  Are some versions of
> Tor broken for DNS lookups?  If so, that's the problem we should try
> to fix first.  If you can identify any servers that fail on lookups
> particularly often, that would be a great place to start.

I'm happy to report that after a couple of weeks of scanning, I found  
no Tor servers that returned incorrect DNS information. However,  
whenever I get a DNS lookup failure, SOAT reports the last exit node  
as 0. Mike, does this mean it was unable to establish a circuit?

/jgt
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