New beta version of TorDNS

Wilson cwilson352 at cogeco.ca
Tue Jan 10 21:12:16 UTC 2006


Attempting to rectify the problem with TorDNS not always resolving 
hostnames when using the internet, TorDNS is now coded to hammer Tor 
resolve over socks function, making TorDNS a little more cpu intensive 
at times, but should insure better hostname to ip resolvements. The 
problem with using TorDNS and Tor to resolve hostnames to ip addresses 
(When TorDNS sometimes does not resolve them right away) is seemingly 
Tor itself, and not TorDNS. I encountered the same problem when using 
Tor_resolve, Tor would lose connection  and retry on a new circuit, 
while using TorDNS or Tor_resolve. It is due to broken resolve over 
socks functions on the exit nodes (From what I was told). Also, TorDNS 
v1.7 listens on address
127.1.2.3 instead of localhost. I hope this has fixed the problem with 
windows users that do not
have a localhost interface (win2k i.e.). The webpage is below

http://sandos.ath.cx/~badger/tordns.html

C. Wilson



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