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grimd
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looterz / grimd

grimd

:zap: fast dns proxy that can run anywhere, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers

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6Mentions
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1.4KGitHub stars
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:zap: fast dns proxy that can run anywhere, built to black-hole internet advertisements and malware servers

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HN mentions by year6 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2016-04-30 07:26:33 UTC to 2022-01-06 11:16:04 UTC.

0122016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 2 submissions, 0 comments20162017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC220
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

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I have been managed for years a cluster of recursive authoritative DNS cluster for a broadband ISP (around 30k subscribers). We have also 2 authoritative DNS servers running bind, but the operations were fully automated through a bunch of custom python scripts (the NOC operators can request a new record by themselves). For the recursives one, I started with bind, but after a few months I replaced it to unbound and it's works like a charm. The only problem that I experienced was about DDoS, mainly generated by ultra cheap chineses home router with buggy firmware. Anyway after a few attacks, we start implementing an application monitoring solution and we were able to mitigate the attacks in a short time. On my laptop I run a a docker container with grimd (https://github.com/looterz/grimd) as recursive DNS and DoH proxy. I can filter out lot
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of dab requests and tracking and have visibility of what my DNS traffic is. It's not hard to configure
In Why might you run your own DNS server?
Found it: https://github.com/looterz/grimd Questions: 1) is this black hole concept sustainable? Or, does it require significant management, and is likely to be circumvented by serving content through a proxy anyway? 2) Why do you run this on the cloud? Don’t you then incur significant bandwidth costs? Or, if DNS only are there speed issues with your EC2 instance lagging?
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