#How to use dnscrypt with windows 10 install#
And yet another nice surprise: as I was checking the documentation, I was directed to Simple DNSCrypt, which seems to be the recommended way to install dnscrypt-proxy, if you want to avoid getting a headache.
#How to use dnscrypt with windows 10 full#
Nice surprise there, there are now a bunch of clients, with DNSCrypt-proxy at the top (probably a full rewrite since it’s version 2.x and written in Go). Before downloading it, I checked out DNSCrypt / dnscrypt-proxy, fearing the worst: last time I check it, the project was abandoned, and it wasn’t very clear what would replace it.
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First surprise, Unbound now has a quite better documentation, with a whole guide (on PDF) for Windows. Which discouraged my from doing the same setup on other computers. And as I was short in time, I never bothered formalizing all this into something that looks like a proper-ish guide. Both had to be installed as a service, ran at startup, Unbound had to listen to port 53 so that I could tell Windows to use 127.0.0.1 as a DNS server, dnscrypt-proxy had to listen to some arbitrary port, and Unbound had to be configured to query that.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far the same, I setup my previous laptop with whatever was needed to send DNS queries to a DNSCrypt resolver instead of using my ISP’s.Īt the time, it was kind of complicated (or at least tedious): I had to install dnscrypt-proxy, and because it had no caching mechanism, I had to also install Unbound on top of it.