Is tor-resolve required to run an Exit node.

[dante]

Hi,

I'm reading the tor code and (if I've understood it) it looks like the
tor binary is sufficient for running either a relay or exit node. 
i.e. tor-resolve is simply an extra utility for the end user to do DNS
resolution via tor rather than via one's DNS server as defined in
/etc/resolv.conf.  (tor-resolve is the tor equivalent of nslookup).

Can someone confirm this?  Am asking because I want to be certain about
what binaries to include in this ramdisk image I'm buidling.

--Tony

Re: Is tor-resolve required to run an Exit node.

[Marco Gruß]

Hi,

dante wrote:

I'm reading the tor code and (if I've understood it) it looks like the
tor binary is sufficient for running either a relay or exit node. 
i.e. tor-resolve is simply an extra utility for the end user to do DNS

resolution via tor rather than via one's DNS server as defined in
/etc/resolv.conf.  (tor-resolve is the tor equivalent of nslookup).

Can someone confirm this?  Am asking because I want to be certain about
what binaries to include in this ramdisk image I'm buidling.


Your assumption is correct; you don't need tor-resolve in order to
run a server.


rgds
Marco

Re: Is tor-resolve required to run an Exit node.

[Fabian Keil]

dante [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 I'm reading the tor code and (if I've understood it) it looks like the
 tor binary is sufficient for running either a relay or exit node. 

Correct.

 i.e. tor-resolve is simply an extra utility for the end user to do DNS
 resolution via tor rather than via one's DNS server as defined in
 /etc/resolv.conf.  (tor-resolve is the tor equivalent of nslookup).

My Tor nslookup equivalent of choice is nslookup:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $sockstat -4l | grep _tor
_tor tor1643  5  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9050 *:*
_tor tor1643  6  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9040 *:*
_tor tor1643  7  udp4   10.0.0.2:53   *:*
_tor tor1643  8  tcp4   10.0.0.2:9051 *:*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $nslookup www.torproject.org tor-jail
Server: tor-jail
Address:10.0.0.2#53

Non-authoritative answer:
Name:   www.torproject.org
Address: 86.59.21.36

That may not be possible with stable releases yet, though.

Fabian


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