serverless-dns VS dnscrypt-proxy

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.

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.

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).

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.

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).

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).

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.

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...

Maybe, this is what you want? https://github.com/serverless-dns/serverless-dns

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