dnscrypt-proxy VS cloudflared

That can be done at DNS level in dnscrypt-proxy: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Filters#time...

There is more than one way to do this but I have decided to use dnscrypt-proxy. We will not be using dnscrypt for the dnscrypt protocol though you could elect to use that as the underlying DNS protocol. dnscrypt-proxy lets's us use a SOCKS5 proxy through which the DNS queries will be sent. We will use a Tor SOCKS5 proxy here. You can choose which protocols should be enabled and which ones should be disabled. There are two points:

I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-linux

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 :).

Sure. I run dnscrypt_proxy behind a pihole. https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy

--- apiVersion: apps/v1 kind: Deployment metadata: name: cloudflared namespace: cloudflared spec: selector: matchLabels: app: cloudflared replicas: 1 template: metadata: labels: app: cloudflared spec: containers: - name: cloudflared image: cloudflare/cloudflared:latest args: - tunnel - --credentials-file - /etc/cloudflared/creds/credentials.json - --protocol # https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/issues/1176#issuecomment-2404546711 - http2 # didnt seem to need the sysctl changes - --metrics - 0.0.0.0:2000 - run - homelab-tunnel livenessProbe: httpGet: path: /ready port: 2000 failureThreshold: 1 initialDelaySeconds: 10 periodSeconds: 10 volumeMounts: - name: creds mountPath: /etc/cloudflared/creds readOnly: true volumes: - name: creds secret: secretName: tunnel-credentials

wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb

cloudflared - Exposes local servers to the public internet over secure tunnels

Cloudflare Tunnel - Excellent free option. Nicely integrates tunneling with the rest of Cloudflare's products, which include DNS and auto HTTPS. Client source code is Apache 2.0 licensed and written in Golang.

I run a RaspberryPi 3 with FreeBSD 13 booting off an SD card and a USB SSD for storage [1]. Coincidentally today (1/7/2024) is its one year anniversary.

It runs a jail with my single user GotoSocial ActivityPub server [2] reasonably well with cloudflared [3] handling incoming traffic and acting as CDN to take some of the load. Originally it was only using an SD card, but there was too much IO contention so a USB-SSD adapter is used to offload the IO.

I choose FreeBSD over Linux since I have other Rpis with Linux already and wanted more experience with *BSD, jails, and ZFS. Unfortunately ZFS wasn't the best choice on an Rpi since it's more cpu intensive and switched back to UFS.

Overall it's been solid, multiple GTS updates and have it on my list to update to FreedBSD 14 but not really in a rush.

1. https://social.ecliptik.com/@micheal/statuses/01GP860MYM2CGH...

2. https://gotosocial.org/

3. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

# Install apt dependencies !apt install dotnet-sdk-7.0 git # Install Clouldflared (not on apt) !wget https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb !dpkg -i cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb # Download StableSwarmUI !git clone https://github.com/Stability-AI/StableSwarmUI # Download ComfyUI backend %cd /content/StableSwarmUI !mkdir /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend %cd /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend !git clone https://github.com/comfyanonymous/ComfyUI %cd /content/StableSwarmUI/dlbackend/ComfyUI # Setup ComfyUI !pip install -r requirements.txt

curl -L --output cloudflared.deb https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-linux-amd64.deb && sudo dpkg -i cloudflared.deb && sudo systemctl restart cloudflared

Something like cloudflared would be awesome. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared

if you're on windows, you can install it with the exe: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-windows-amd64.exe (or https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflared/releases/latest/download/cloudflared-windows-386.exe if your using 32bit windows.)

So, the "more than one" issue is kind of discussed HERE and HERE but for sure, for whatever reason, this caused me sleepless nights.