dnsproxy-config VS dnscrypt-proxy

Yes.

You can find the project here, the documentation describes installation alongside or in front of Pi-hole, depending on the use case. If you want secure incoming traffic, a certified FQDN is required. This is left as an exercise for the user (to raise the bar somewhat).

No need for the full AGH stack. You can easily run dnsproxy alongside or in front of Pi-hole.

I have somewhat documented the process of putting up a Do(H|T|Q)/DNScrypt proxy as a standalone service here.

I still need to fix up a couple of permission issues in my documentation, but I have the rough outline of deploying dnsproxy as a standalone simple service here. The last few edits I made to it were getting it to use the yaml syntaxed config file, and trying to make sure a default configuration should Just Work without having to edit it, but you'd still want to.

There's a basic overview here, but I haven't touched it for a while and the documentation may be slightly broken surrounding exec permissions on some files.

It's very possible. You could easily set this up yourself. I do so so myself using dnsproxy, and you could too.

I have an example dnsproxy service here that I use for high availability (one-to-many) distribution and providing encrypted transport.

You might know me as that Unbound guy, or maybe even that dnsproxy guy. Today I would like to make myself known as that Munin guy, and introduce munin-pihole-plugins for Munin Monitoring.

Kinda.

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I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: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