Is tor-resolve required to run an Exit node.

[Fabian Keil]

dante <dante at virtualblueness.net> 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. 

Correct.

> 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).

My "Tor nslookup equivalent" of choice is nslookup:

fk at TP51 ~ $sockstat -4l | grep _tor
_tor     tor        1643  5  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9050         *:*
_tor     tor        1643  6  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9040         *:*
_tor     tor        1643  7  udp4   10.0.0.2:53           *:*
_tor     tor        1643  8  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9051         *:*
fk at TP51 ~ $nslookup www.torproject.org tor-jail
Server:         tor-jail
Address:        10.0.0.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   www.torproject.org
Address: 86.59.21.36

That may not be possible with stable releases yet, though.

Fabian
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