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Earthlink's broken DNS affecting Tor nodes?

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From: Jay Goodman Tamboli <jay@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:26:51 -0400
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I'm currently running a Tor node (phrenograph) on an Earthlink DSL connection, and they've recently started returning a "help" site's IP instead of NXDOMAIN when a DNS lookup is requested for a nonexistent site. See [1] for more. Should I be concerned about this change's effect on the Tor network, since presumably DNS lookups I do are no longer perfect? If it does have a detrimental effect, is there a way to block DNS lookups in my exit policy?

/jgt

1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/03/1359221
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