[tor-relays] Why do 40% of Tor exits uses 8.8.8.8 for DNS resolving ?

[Tom van der Woerdt]

Why doesn't Tor just link with a dns recursor, instead of relying on the
user to get the configuration right?

Tom


Op 16/10/16 om 12:52 schreef Toralf Förster:
> Reading [1] I do wonder about that.
> Why do Tor exit relay operators avoid installing a local resolver - or at least simple a cache as shown in [2] ?
> Adding different nameserver= lines to /etc/resolv.conf than 8.8.8.8 shouldn't be a big thing, or ?
> 
> [1] https://nymity.ch/tor-dns/tor-dns.pdf
> [2] https://zwiebeltoralf.de/torserver.html
> 
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