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dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.

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SmartDNS – local DNS server that forwards to multiple upstream DNS servers | Jul 2023
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This is awesome, thanks -- going to look into that now. I found SmartDNS interesting and thought I would share it, it's pretty simple to setup. I can see why it's Chinese focused, they have "interesting" internet access over there :-).

I have been looking into DNS quite a bit lately (Unbound, etc), as DNS lookup performance has been pretty subpar lately. I'm in Perth, Australia, and we're pretty remote so our latency is meh at best, and Cloudflare performance has been all over the shop lately, I think they're having issues in WA). DNS can also cause really routing issues here sometimes as we get better latency to Singapore than Sydney, so we might get shunted off to SG.

I've also been using dnscrypt-proxy2 (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy) for a while, but the above issues with Cloudflares DNS is what triggered me to look into other options.

I use a min-cache-ttl of 15 minutes, which seems to work well.

Thank you for sharing this tip about, looking into this now :).
Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers? | Mar 2022
I use dnscrypt-proxy[0] which round-robins to a bunch of upstream servers, plus encryption.

[0] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers? | Mar 2022
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In that case maybe something like DNSCrypt[0] and a 3rd party provider makes sense. On top of the encrypted connection, DNSCrypt has the option to proxy queries to improve privacy.

This only helps if they're not doing any advanced blocking though. If I remember correctly, when Russia blocked Telegram, they were blocking their IPs, not just DNS queries. If the rumours of a "RuNet" are true, then they probably need something more advanced (eg: a VPN with traffic obfuscation, Tor, etc).

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[0] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
Alternative DNS Roots | Jan 2022
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DoH does not depend on a browser! Try this out with cURL

    curl --http2 -H 'accept: application/dns-json' "https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=cloudflare.com" --next --http2 -H 'accept: application/dns-json' "https://1.1.1.1/dns-query?name=example.com"
There are DoH resolvers[0] that you can use that act as a "middleman" between your browser (configured to use a standard DNS server) and DoH (which is more secure and private)

[0] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy