Section: New Results

GNS support for Tor

We have worked with the Tor community to understand how best to support integration of the GNU Name System with Tor via specialized Tor exit nodes. There are two components to this work:

At present, there are somewhat fragile configuration options to Tor that should allow Tor users to locate the specialized exit nodes, although a small patch to Tor itself would improve upon these.

There are security reasons why Tor should not interact with locally configured name resolution services. OnioNS created a method to make Tor use local services for some domain name lookups, but doing so is somewhat heavy [9] . If we're creating a GNS patch to Tor anyways, then we'll likely extend it to optimize this process.