Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

M maillist at piirakka.com
Mon Sep 4 20:09:29 UTC 2006


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Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote:
> I'm currently running a Tor node (phrenograph) on an Earthlink DSL
> connection, and they've recently started returning a "help" site's IP
> instead of NXDOMAIN when a DNS lookup is requested for a nonexistent
> site. See [1] for more. Should I be concerned about this change's effect
> on the Tor network, since presumably DNS lookups I do are no longer
> perfect? If it does have a detrimental effect, is there a way to block
> DNS lookups in my exit policy?
> 
> /jgt
> 
> 1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/03/1359221
> --http://tamboli.cx/
> PGP Key ID: 0x7F2AC862B511029F
> 
> 
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