RIP Stubby, DNSCrypt lives

So I guess this is part 3 of my DNS blog post series. In our last episode...

I had previously installed Stubby as a local DNS server. It didn't work out so well. Stubby kept getting hung up and would stop serving up DNS responses. I read a few things about this as a known issue. So I removed Stubby and went with something else.

I had tried DNSCrypt-Proxy a year or two ago, and it is a recomendation on privacytools.io so I decided to try that again. So this one was even easier to setup than Stubby, probably 5 minutes at most. I found a nice post at Stan's blog[1] that was easy to follow for MacOS. The only other change I made to the dnscrypt-proxy config was add the Mac's IP address so I could use it as a server for the entire network. I really like that you don't have to find specific IP addresses of DNS servers to use, just use a tag name for the server_names value in the config to tell dnscrypt-proxy which servers you want to use. DNS reponses are also cached by default without needing to make any config adjustements.

I'll see over the next week how this one performs.

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tags: DNS, dnscrypt-proxy
timestamp: 2020-10-04 21:09:28