On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 11:26:51AM -0400, Jay Goodman Tamboli wrote: > 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? Alas, there isn't a way to do this now: all nodes are assumed to have working DNS. The symptoms are minor, however, and I'd leave your server running. This *is* something we should fix, though. I've added bug 330 on flyspray to remind us to fix it. I've suggested a few possible solutions there; if anybody wants to submit a patch, I'd love to get something in to handle this situation. (bug link at http://bugs.noreply.org/flyspray/index.php?do=details&id=330 ) yrs, -- Nick Mathewson
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