Best DNS resolver for an exit

chris · December 20, 2021, 6:54pm

What is the best DNS provider for an exit? I’m using Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 right now but I’d like to change.

lokodlare · December 20, 2021, 7:17pm

On my Linux nodes I use unbound as described in the setup guide to perform DNS resolution locally: https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/exit/

Cloudflare / Google DNS is not recommended to use with Exit nodes as it centralizes tor’s DNS resolution to a few central places on the web.

chris · December 21, 2021, 1:14pm

Thanks, I’ve moved over to my ISP’s DNS.

Mister_Magoo · May 30, 2022, 5:45am

I’m not sure if they have something similar for Linux, but for Windows, I’m using Simple DNSCrypt.

It does DNS over TCP, DNS over HTTPS, only selects DNS servers with DNSSEC, only selects servers without logging, only selects servers without filters.

So I’ve got 82 DNS servers that are used in round-robin fashion.