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| author | Sebastian Hahn <sebastian@torproject.org> | 2017-11-03 03:06:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-11-05 14:36:32 -0500 |
| commit | 98275743081728b1538f70111c891ea573127e85 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a65fd833762c4f133eb9e26960b08b1d8cf4885 /changes | |
| parent | 04d4786cc40b2d80b4cd34e7d5339b0100861c8f (diff) | |
| download | tor-98275743081728b1538f70111c891ea573127e85.tar.gz tor-98275743081728b1538f70111c891ea573127e85.zip | |
Fix DNS resolution on busy exit relays
Thanks to Dhalgren who analyzed this issue two years ago and found a
solution!
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| -rw-r--r-- | changes/bug21394 | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug21394 b/changes/bug21394 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e5452e20ba --- /dev/null +++ b/changes/bug21394 @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ + o Major bugfixes (Exit nodes): + - Fix an issue causing high-bandwidth exit nodes to fail a majority + or all of their DNS requests, making them basically unsuitable for + regular usage in Tor circuits. The problem is related to + libevent's DNS handling, but we can work around it in Tor. Fixes + bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha which introduced + eventdns. Credit goes to Dhalgren for identifying and finding a + workaround to this bug and to gamambel, arthuredelstein and + arma in helping to track it down and analyze it. |