dnscrypt-proxy VS dnscrypt-resolvers

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I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: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

Unifi has a "DNS shield" feature with non-customizable config pointing directly to a file of a project which does not use tags nor automatic content validations: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/issues/944

As a result, hundreds of networks were taken down.

Block the google, cloudflare ones - will cover most situations. Or white-list egress IPs for your unknown devices if you have to use them. Or setup a transparent proxy and inspect the content there and deny DNS. There ARE ways but yes things get a bit more complex. Most firewalls will be happy to index a long list of IPs as a set and perform well checking if src/dst ip matches. So you can use sites like https://github.com/dnscrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers to extract the list of IPs and update the set.

Since they don't seem to be mentioned on their website, DNS Stamps are sdns://AgMAAAAAAAAAACCaOjT3J965vKUQA9nOnDn48n3ZxSQpAcK6saROY1oCGQdkbnMwLmV1Ci9kbnMtcXVlcnk ("zero" version) and sdns://AgMAAAAAAAAAACCaOjT3J965vKUQA9nOnDn48n3ZxSQpAcK6saROY1oCGQxraWRzLmRuczAuZXUKL2Rucy1xdWVyeQ ("kids" version).

But these are already present in the list of public encrypted resolvers (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/blob/master/v...).

I had some spare time over the holiday period so I created a site that displays current information about the responses from the DNS servers listed in the public-resolvers.md file (https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/blob/master/v3/public-resolvers.md) and makes the latest results available. Have a look at https://status.ednst.com/index.html for details on how to use the site.

For servers using encryption, there are the most up-to-date lists: https://github.com/dnscrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers

Github DNSCrypt/DNS Server

I use resolvers v3 myself there are six addresses installed in adguard home:

list of odoh relays can be found here: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/blob/master/v3/odoh-relays.md