letsdane VS dnscrypt-proxy

The easiest way to do this is to use letsdane https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane

Easiest way would be to deploy LetsDane and then allow a user to set the DoH server for the LetsDane proxy to use: https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane

P.S. Does anyone know why "humbly/" isn't working with HTTPS either? It's the same error that I'm getting. According to https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane, 3b/, letsdane/, proofofconcept/ and humbly/ all have DANE enabled. "humbly" appears to be configured properly (DNSSEC, SSL cert w/ matching TLSA), but I get the same SSL error when trying to resolve with Fingertip. Anybody else??

To securely access an HNS domain using DANE, extra software is required (until we get DANE browser integration!): https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane

Yes but you need a HNS resolver, which can also resolve legacy DNS names. So I have hsd installed on a raspberry pi on my home network, and another running on a VPS -- I set all my devices to make DNS requests from those servers. Set once and forget: now I can visit all HNS names as well as every DNS website. There some caveats to this, and the biggest issue is SSL / TLS / https but we have a solution for that as well: https://github.com/buffrr/letsdane All web browsers work fine with HNS names, but until a major browser implements native DANE verification, the middleware proxy is required.

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I tried installing the RPM from the Fedora repos but it's out-of-date and there were no instructions on how to get it operational, so I went with the manual approach as per their wiki: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