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Fenix
Discontinued ⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
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user.js
Firefox privacy, security and anti-tracking: a comprehensive user.js template for configuration and hardening
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libcurl
A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features
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gravity-sync
Discontinued 💫 The easy way to synchronize the DNS configuration of two Pi-hole 5.x instances.
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wirehole
WireHole is a combination of WireGuard, Pi-hole, and Unbound in a docker-compose project with the intent of enabling users to quickly and easily create a personally managed full or split-tunnel WireGuard VPN with ad blocking capabilities thanks to Pi-hole, and DNS caching, additional privacy options, and upstream providers via Unbound.
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Just one bad packet can bring down a vulnerable DNS server thanks to DNSSEC
dnsmasq and unbound are impacted to
https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/releases/tag/release-1....
https://lists.thekelleys.org.uk/pipermail/dnsmasq-discuss/20...
As are any other DNSSEC validators that followed the specifications.
Bind9 has its problems but this is not its fault this time.
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Encrypted Client Hello – the last puzzle piece to privacy
Are you familiar with https://pi-hole.net/ ?
In my house I want DNS resolution to be performed by my own DNS resolver (https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound), after I block ad domains.
DoH circumvents that.
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F5 Forward Proxy DNS resolvers CNAME limit
So yep it's an unbound thing: https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues/438 there was a PR to allow a user to change the depth of a chase. I doubt F5 would have that version of unbound in any current software but support may be able to check or look at a lab 17.1 to see what version it is--you could then manually edit the conf file but it wouldn't persist through upgrades..
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DNS Resolver does not return correct responses for all queries
That's confirms in issue#362 I found.
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What upstream dns resolvers do you use?
The last time I checked, Unbound does not support upstream DoH. You can configure it to reply to DoH requests from clients, but you can't use it to forward queries to another DoH provider like Cloudflare or Quad9. Has that changed? The pull request has been open for 3 years.
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Can unbound operate in iterative mode?
And, while the documentation for unbound.conf doesn’t say a whole lot about the iterator module specifically as far as I can tell, the code says:
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Running PiHole on a second server
Gravity-Sync won't do that. But searching around on GH, I found this : https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/blob/master/contrib/unbound_cache.sh
- DNS Delegation - How to DNSSEC?
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pfBlockerNG-devel v3.1.0_7 / v3.1.0_14
Version 1.15.0 Configure line: --with-libexpat=/usr/local --with-ssl=/usr --disable-dnscrypt --disable-dnstap --with-libnghttp2 --enable-ecdsa --disable-event-api --enable-gost --with-libevent --with-pythonmodule=yes --with-pyunbound=yes ac_cv_path_SWIG=/usr/local/bin/swig LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --disable-subnet --disable-tfo-client --disable-tfo-server --with-pthreads --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/local/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd12.3 Linked libs: libevent 2.1.12-stable (it uses kqueue), OpenSSL 1.1.1n-freebsd 15 Mar 2022 Linked modules: dns64 python respip validator iterator BSD licensed, see LICENSE in source package for details. Report bugs to [email protected] or https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound/issues
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Anyone know of some open-source or community based name-servers?
"Unbound" for example https://github.com/NLnetLabs/unbound
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