[dns-operations] Tor and the answers > 512 bytes

Paul Wouters paul at nohats.ca
Tue May 13 18:10:31 UTC 2014


On Tue, 13 May 2014, Hauke Lampe wrote:

> On 13.05.2014 18:25, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
>
>> It appears that Tor is still limited to 512 bytes / no TCP :-(
>
> Indeed, the restricted set of query types offered by libevent also
> prevents SRV lookups for XMPP.
>
> Someone[tm] should rewrite Tor's resolver to use libunbound ;-)

Tor should use tor for TCP using

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wouters-edns-chain-query-00

possibly bundling/cross wiring the dns(sec) caches between nodes for
added query origin hiding.

Paul



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