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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