rethink-app
DNS over HTTPS / DNS over Tor / DNSCrypt client, WireGuard proxifier, firewall, and connection tracker for Android. (by celzero)
serverless-dns
The RethinkDNS resolver that deploys to Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, Fastly, and Fly.io (by serverless-dns)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
rethink-app
Posts with mentions or reviews of rethink-app.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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After longer pause all internet blocked dammit.
We are aware of connectivity issues with WireGuard (ref) that we've fixed in yet-to-release version v055b. Please wait until that's out (2 days? 3?) (:
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Widget / Notification Action for Universal Lockdown
Noted. Thanks.
- Make rethinkdns show allowed apps at the top
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What is the best firewall app for android?
Also, crafting nice UI isn't our strong suit. One look at our github issue tracker (ex) and you'd know. We try our best, though (:
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Thoughts on RethinkDNS. Firewall, Privacy, Ads, all-in-one app for privacy.
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.
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Allow inbound LAN connections
Could, but it'd clutter the Settings screen? Probably, Rethink could let expert users enter arbitrary IP subnets to exclude / not route? This setting will be a footgun, though! Regardless, I've noted it: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/899
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v054b: A much improved DNS
I believe it is a bug with okhttp, a library we use internally for blocklist updates: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/875
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Using NetGuard over Blokada 5
NetGuard can block tracker and ad (albeit very basic), so you can use it on its own without Blokada. Or you can use the AdGuard app instead which has both firewall and (complete) adblocking feature. If you prefer open source app then check Rethink https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app
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IMHO, Asus Calculator is the best calculator app around
First one is Rethink DNS: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app to manage and block domains when apps connecting to internet (similar to Blokada, Adguard...). Here that calculator app connects to googletagmanager after installing and opening.
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I can't block the domain mtalk.google.com. What could be the reason?
In v054b, we're planning to switch back to the old behaviour -- of domain names blocked during DNS name resolution instead of (translating it to IP rules) at TCP / UDP connection time -- if the user has not set any per-app domain name rules and if the user is not using Bypass DNS and Firewall setting for any app: https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app/issues/817
serverless-dns
Posts with mentions or reviews of serverless-dns.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-17.
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Thoughts on RethinkDNS. Firewall, Privacy, Ads, all-in-one app for privacy.
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.
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Using Cloudflare Gateway as an alternative to Pi-hole to block ads, trackers and other bad domains
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.
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Logs? Max or Sky?
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).
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Any future plans of adding an ad-blocking DNS server?
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.
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RethinkDNS
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).
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Encrypted DNS, what's the point?
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).
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Meet the triumvirate: rec, sec, and pec
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.
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NextDNS vs Control D as compared by Control D owner
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...
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Cloudflare like DNS - Self-hosted or with more privacy
Maybe, this is what you want? https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns
- Jack Dorsey -Twitter founder- is working on a 1M grant to The Calyx Institute
What are some alternatives?
When comparing rethink-app and serverless-dns you can also consider the following projects:
Netguard - A simple way to block access to the internet per app
personalDNSfilter - personalDNSfilter is a DNS filter proxy written in Java.
Nebulo - Mirror of https://git.frostnerd.com/PublicAndroidApps/smokescreen. Feel free to contribute here as well.
afwall - AFWall+ (Android Firewall +) - iptables based firewall for Android
dnscrypt-proxy - dnscrypt-proxy 2 - A flexible DNS proxy, with support for encrypted DNS protocols.
tracker-control-android - TrackerControl Android: monitor and control trackers and ads.
calyxos
dns66 - DNS-based Host Blocker (and lightweight ad blocker) for Android
blokada - The official repo for Blokada apps.
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serverless-dns vs tracker-control-android
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