Is tor-resolve required to run an Exit node.

[Marco Gruß]

Hi,

dante wrote:
> I'm reading the tor code and (if I've understood it) it looks like the
> "tor" binary is sufficient for running either a relay or exit node. 
> i.e. tor-resolve is simply an "extra" utility for the end user to do DNS
> resolution via tor rather than via one's DNS server as defined in
> /etc/resolv.conf.  (tor-resolve is the tor equivalent of nslookup).
> 
> Can someone confirm this?  Am asking because I want to be certain about
> what binaries to include in this ramdisk image I'm buidling.

Your assumption is correct; you don't need tor-resolve in order to
run a server.


rgds
Marco