[tor-relays] lets stop using central big DNS resolvers (Google, Level3, OpenDNS, Quad9, Cloudflare)

Nathaniel Suchy (Lunorian) me at lunorian.is
Fri May 11 12:28:08 UTC 2018


I dislike OpenNIC as they are operating their own TLDs - this would end
up being confusing as some Tor Exits would allow access to OpenNIC TLDs
and others would not.

On 5/11/18 8:18 AM, Famicoman wrote:
> OpenNIC is always an option, https://www.opennic.org
> 
> On Fri, May 11, 2018, 8:12 AM Tyler Durden <virii at enn.lu
> <mailto:virii at enn.lu>> wrote:
> 
>     Ah well I should look more into the services of EDRi members :D
> 
>     In this case I will give it a try as a fallback instead of google
>     and we will see how it performs.
> 
> 
>     Greetings
> 
>     Am 11. Mai 2018 14:04:37 MESZ schrieb Christian Pietsch
>     <christian.pietsch at digitalcourage.de
>     <mailto:christian.pietsch at digitalcourage.de>>:
> 
>         Hi Tyler,
>         hi all,
> 
>         On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 10:37:00PM +0000, Tyler Durden wrote:
> 
>             The situation is very unlikely to change unless there is a
>             major player
>             on "our side" which offers a free, censorship-free,
>             resilient and stable
>             DNS Service.
> 
> 
>         You are welcome to use our free, censorship-free, resilient and stable
>         DNS resolver:
>         $ host dns2.digitalcourage.de <http://dns2.digitalcourage.de>
>         dns2.digitalcourage.de <http://dns2.digitalcourage.de> has address 46.182.19.48
>         dns2.digitalcourage.de <http://dns2.digitalcourage.de> has IPv6 address 2a02:2970:1002:0:5054:8aff:fe12:db49
> 
>         Whether you consider Digitalcourage e.V. a major player is up to you.
>         Here is some background in English: https://digitalcourage.de/en
>         (Tyler, I know you know us since we as an EDRi member supported your
>         organisation's entry application.)
> 
>         More specific information on our DNS relays is available in German
>         only <https://digitalcourage.de/support/zensurfreier-dns-server>
>         but see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitalcourage for a summary.
>         This is not a huge machine but it could take some more load. We have
>         configured DNSSEC and are looking into implementing DNS-over-TLS now.
> 
>         You might ask what happened to dns.digitalcourage.de <http://dns.digitalcourage.de>. That is our
>         older open DNS resolver. We have run it since 2009. It has been
>         overloaded recently, and we recommend that people switch to dns2.
> 
>         Cheers,
>         C:
> 
> 
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