LYlysergia·Aug 3, 2022Submission
6 points · Open discussionDNSCrypt
dnscrypt-proxy
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DNSCrypt / dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
22Distinct people
31Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
13.8KGitHub stars
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dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
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Observed mentions: 2019-09-17 00:14:45 UTC to 2025-07-16 20:42:19 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 0 | 7 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesI use dnscrypt-proxy[0] which round-robins to a bunch of upstream servers, plus encryption.
[0] https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy
In Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?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
In Ask HN: Neutral DNS servers?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
In Alternative DNS Roots