[tor-relays] exit operators: overall DNS failure rate above 5% - please check your DNS

[Conrad Rockenhaus]

Would you make a recommendation of running unbound on the local exit nodes to resolve local DNS server congestion to get around this issue?

Thanks,

Conrad

> On Oct 19, 2018, at 5:30 PM, nusenu <nusenu-lists at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
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> Dear Exit relay operators,
> 
> (you are getting this email because you are a subscriber of the tor-relays mailing
> list or because you are among the top 10 affected parties - addressed via BCC to protect the address)
> 
> first of all thanks for running exit relays!
> 
> One of the crucial service that you provide in addition to forwarding
> TCP streams is DNS resolution for tor clients.
> Exits relays which fail to resolve hostnames
> are barely useful for tor clients.
> 
> We noticed that lately the failure rates did increase again and would like
> to urge you to visit Arthur's "Tor Exit DNS Timeouts"
> page that shows you the DNS error rate for exit relays:
> 
> https://arthuredelstein.net/exits/
> (the page is usually updated once a day)
> 
> Please consider checking your DNS if your exit relay consistently shows a non zero
> timeout rate - and make sure you run an up to date tor version.
> 
> If you are an exit operator but have no (or no working) ContactInfo, please consider
> updating that field in your torrc so we can reach you if something is wrong
> with your relay.
> 
> kind regards
> nusenu
> 
> --
> https://twitter.com/nusenu_
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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