Re: [tor-relays] What fraction of Tor’s DNS traffic goes to Google and Cloudflare?

[Steve Snyder <swsnyder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I find it more alarming that a single exit operator handles 13% of exit
traffic than that the DNS resolution is dominated by 2 big players.

Although the DNS dependencies are bad too.


On 7/11/19 6:31 PM, nusenu wrote:
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> 
> https://medium.com/@nusenu/what-fraction-of-tors-dns-traffic-goes-to-google-and-cloudflare-492229ccfd42
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> 
>> 60.05% of the tor network’s exit capacity uses a resolver which is
>> located in the same autonomous system as the exit relay itself (that
>> includes localhost)  which is recommended to minimize the path
>> between exit relay and its resolver. Lets aim to increase this
>> fraction to above 80%.
>>
>> If you are an exit operator and want to help reach this goal you can
>> use this list to verify you are not using Google or Cloudflare
>> resolvers. 
> 
> https://gist.github.com/nusenu/e6eec32679cc64ffe3e24d2b9367a931
> 
>> The Tor Relay Guide has instructions for setting up a
>> local DNS resolver. 
> 
> https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/wiki/TorRelayGuide#DNSonExitRelays
> 
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