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Wed 5 Aug 2020 10:22AM

Setup Private Dns With Open Nic Servers

PP Pirate Praveen Public Seen by 55

Created a blog post for setting up Private DNS in Android 9+ using DoT and Open NIC servers.

https://fsci.in/blog/setup-private-dns-with-open-nic-servers/

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bobinson Thu 6 Aug 2020 3:02PM

DNS is one of the low hanging fruits which can be misused for control and tracking. New to Open NIC's DNS it looks great. Do they have support for DNScrypt ?

I have a dedicated DNS and was playing with it for a while https://freebird.dev/the-extend-of-ad-tracking/

We should promote:


- few dedicated DNS servers like Open NIC
- Encrypted DNS (not sure TLS or DNScrypt any pointers ?)

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Pirate Praveen Thu 6 Aug 2020 4:39PM

Open NIC's servers are maintained by different volunteers and some of them support DNSCrypt. https://servers.opennic.org/ has a list of all servers and the features they support. I think we need to promote encrypted DNS, but should not promote centralized services like cloudflare. Android 9+ has DoT support and recent Firefox versions have DoH.

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bobinson Fri 7 Aug 2020 1:38PM

but should not promote centralized services like cloudflare.

completely agree.

I am very skeptical about Mozilla Firefox's Cloudflare integration too.

> Android 9+ has DoT support and recent Firefox versions have DoH.

Will reset everytime the phone is rebooted and all ? I wanted to set this as a permanent setting on few phones like the one my mom is using and all. But I have found that the setting was not persistent.

My setup is heavily tweaked Pihole + DNScrypt + OpenVPN. This has a trouble of frequent disconnections. Somehow I am yet not comfortable with Wireguard.