Re: [tor-relays] [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have failed

2016-06-19 Thread s7r
Hello, This warn is known for some time. It's safe to ignore this warning no matter how many times you see it in your log file, IIRC it's a libevent issue when DNS resolvers are idle. All my exit relays have multiple such lines in the log files constantly. It's highly important to run your own re

Re: [tor-relays] [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have failed

2016-06-19 Thread SuperSluether
It's been mentioned here once before, but you shouldn't be using Google's DNS servers as they see almost all of the Tor network traffic. My solution was to run a local DNS resolver (unbound in my case) and to use at least 2 DNS servers from the Open NIC project: https://www.opennicproject.org/

Re: [tor-relays] [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have failed

2016-06-19 Thread Toralf Förster
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 06/19/2016 09:59 PM, pa011 wrote: > Or are there better working solutions? I do have only 127.0.0.1 set in my resolv.conf and do use dnsmasq together with strict DNSSEC. works like a charm and DNSSEC is really a good thing IMO. The configuratio

[tor-relays] [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have failed

2016-06-19 Thread pa011
Jun 19 20:24:38.000 [warn] eventdns: All nameservers have failed Jun 19 20:24:38.000 [notice] eventdns: Nameserver 8.8.4.4:53 is back up I do get this in my logs on an exit (Tor 0.2.7.6) several times every hour. The /etc/resolv.conf contains # Generated by SolusVM nameserver 8.8.8.8 nameserver