tor and resolv.conf / ipv6

Udo van den Heuvel udovdh at xs4all.nl
Thu Sep 2 17:07:56 UTC 2010


On 2010-09-02 18:56, Nick Mathewson wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Udo van den Heuvel <udovdh at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> On 2010-09-02 17:34, Udo van den Heuvel wrote:
>>> Tor chokes and stops when it finds ipv6 numbers in resolv.conf.
>>> Is this a known issue?
> 
> Sadly, yeah.
> 
> As a workaround, if you build Tor with Libevent 2.0.x, Tor will use
> Libevent's evdns code, rather than its own internal (and
> lagged-behind) implementation

libevent-1.4.13-1.fc13.i686 on this Fedora box is not enough I guess?

> As another workaround, you can specify an alternative resolv.conf file
> using the ServerDNSResolvConfFile command.

I guess this will be the short-medium term fix for now...

Thanks!

Kind regards,
Udo
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