bbs VS serverless-dns

https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/63

People should be aware that privacy tools can make you stand out. Unless methods are used to obfuscate your data.

I never trusted Signal due to https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues/60

VPNs are totally detectable - its your traffic eg what ur searching up that is hard or impossible to decrypt. to make the VPN TRAFFIC itself undetectable, you have to obfuscate it. Now there could be a lot of reasons as to how your school blocked your vpn. The ports expressvpn use may have been blocked, for example. I personally don't use express vpn but use my own, but protocols like wireguard which MAY (im not sure) be used by express vpn use udp packets and the school could have just completely dropped them completely (Most games use udp packets since its faster), or the ip ranges you have been assigned on expressvpn may have just been blocked from the school wifi. As for why the cheap free vpn may be able to bypass your school wifi, it could be that it avoids the reasons above OR its something different like a proxy, which is what I use to bypass the restrictions at my high school. The fix, or what I do, is I setup my own servers. The price of a vps server at digital ocean is like 4 dollars a month, probably around the same price if not cheaper than expressvpn. Get yourself one, setup your own proxy server and connect to that. You can search around for tutorials, but the one I use is VMESS+TCP, essentially disguising the proxy traffic as a tcp packet so that the school can't distinguish it from regular traffic. Find a tutorial online, probably ask around on here: https://github.com/net4people/bbs If you followed a guide and still can't get it to work, your gna have to find an unblocked port. I would try 443 or 123 first since usually those aren't blocked but for my school 3478 is the one that works.

sky is a stub resolver, which after stripping out all request information, forwards the dns query to both Cloudflare and Google DoH servers (code), and replies from which ever responds back the fastest. Both the client app and the resolver (server) are open source, so if you find any leaks and know what's up, we're open to changes.

There is also https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns that works on user-configurable list combinations using Cloudflare Workers (100k queries per day), though it can't be integrated with WARP.

Max (fly.io) and Sky (cloudflare) are both are no logs. You can examine the code to ascertain this (here) and also check the version of the code we've deployed too (via github actions).

You can selfhost your own adblocking server on Cloudflare Workers and edit the upstream, you get Quad9 malware filtering, Cloudflare's nearest servers, and whatever blocking list you want.

Took us wayyy longer than originally planned, because not only personal life got in the way, we also run our own resolver (open source) maintaining which took away some of our time too. Especially, as the costs were mounting, we couldn't ignore it and had to optimize it as much as we could (which we since have).

Even those who weren't interested in self-hosting might spend a couple of minutes hosting their own DNS proxy since it's much more flexible and don't require root or dedicated port (at least with DoH).

I swear this idea wasn't generated over chats and coffee with GPT3; though, most of the code for this feature was most certainly written by it (commit). Be careful with your reviews of this feature then; you don't want to upset a sentient Optimus Prime AI.

If you are deploying your own rdns, then logs and analytics are up and running (check the github readme). NRDs and other things will happen as we near launch (in a month or two, perhaps). But we are just 2 developers, and our time is really all spent on the Android app, and not the service...

Maybe, this is what you want? https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns