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

[John Ricketts]

Hey there,

I see several of my exit nodes on this list but the DNS failure is 0.0 percent.  Is there a hundredths column of failure with me, like 0.05 percent or something?  I'm making the list for a reason.

Example:
0.0<----	Quintex16	9D21F034C3BFF4E7737D08CF775DC1745706801F	Quintex Alliance Consulting	

Thanks,
John

-----Original Message-----
From: tor-relays <tor-relays-bounces at lists.torproject.org> On Behalf Of nusenu
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2018 11:50 AM
To: tor-relays at lists.torproject.org
Subject: [tor-relays] exit operators: overall DNS failure rate above 5% - please check your DNS

Dear Exit relay operators,

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

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