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> IPv6 is locally resolved by each relay. If this fails, probably
> because some DNS servers are IPv4-only, the relays shall forward
> their queries to 1-2 central DNS resolver with IPv4 addresses.

That would probably be doable, but it would negate the privacy and the
security benefit of running a local DNSSEC-validating recursive DNS
resolver. When I run my own, I can be sure that it's using a local copy
of the root zone, that it's using QNAME minimization and aggressive-
NSEC, that it's up-to-date and is aggressively caching negative answers
(which are very common over Tor), etc.

Perhaps I could have the resolver prefer IPv6 and if the nameserver
doesn't support that, it could fall back to the exit's IPv4. If the
nameserver blocks Tor, *then* it could be sent up to some privacy-
friendly upstream resolver. I don't know if Unbound can be configured
to do that natively. It might take a small patch.

> The overlap of DNS servers that are IPv4-only and block Tor relays
> might be small enough to tolerate the issue or just use a friendly
> public resolver for them as fallback.

I don't think it would be enough to tolerate the issue. Failures to get
answers from big nameservers doesn't just break a few websites. It can
break an entire zone. You may find that all .hu domains that lack IPv6
will become unreachable. Using a friendly public resolver as fallback,
or even falling back to a high-latency resolver on one of my other
nodes, is probably preferable.

> In any way, I hope you enable IPv6 on your relays (start with DNS).
> Because the IPv4 shortage only gets worse over time, and enabling
> IPv6 is a (partial) way out, even already today.

I have IPv6 enabled on all my exits that support it. Some of them do
not support IPv6, but that is the fault of budget basement datacenters
running in Romania, and not my own network config. ;)

Regards,
forest
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