Importance of encrypted DNS?
Importance of encrypted DNS?
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but how important is using one of the encrypted DNS services from the megathread? I've just been using Google's DNS servers directly on my router, and have yet to have any issues. Have I just been lucky?
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Encrypted DNS can help minimize the amount of information available to your ISP. Most ISPs block and log your traffic through DNS queries since it's the easiest. By encrypting your DNS traffic, the ISP can't see what domain you're trying to find. Although, if they are motivated enough, they can sniff the SNI headers from your TCP traffic.
I'd stay away from Google DNS as they log it for themselves.
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DNS doesn't really matter for piracy, but it can help improve privacy and security.
DNS over TLS will ensure all your dns requests are encrypted, and most clients actually validate the certificate so attempts to hijack the connection are not easily possible.
Firefox can bypass your systems DNS and use DoH. I think windows also supports DoT.
For Linux, systemd networkd and resolved also support DoT.
Keep in mind that some software does not obey system dns settings and can do their own DNS.
I've been entering the primary and secondary DNS addressed in my router settings, so it applies to the whole network. I suppose that won't work for DNS over TLS, DoH, or DoT, then? Unfortunately, my router doesn't support flashing dd-wrt, so I'm stuck with Netgear's firmware.
It only applies to network devices that respect the setting. However, if you are using windows, for machines you care about, you can just configure DoT.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/secure-your-internet-connection-dns
Android also supports DoT, as does firefox as I mentioned above. For any given device you can search for "android DNS over TLS" and get info to see if it can be easily turned on.
However, also keep in mind if you are using Windows, then using DoT is like putting a bandaid on a gushing wound. The underlying OS is not trustworthy.
If you don't want to spend money, use 1.1.1.1 at least. It's important.
And please don't post the same for 3 times thanks.
Cloudflare already routes practically all of the internet, why would you explicitly want to also use their DNS?
Because we want the internet to be centralized to like 3 companies that run everything!
Unless you are not hiding 10TB of CP in the basement of your mom I suggest you to use at least cloudfare.
That's cloudfare, right?
It is
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Have OSes evolved enough that encrypted DNS is available? If so, would someone with enough technical knowledge link a guide on how to set it up within a popular OS?
I imagine that even if you plug in one of the suggested DNS provider IP addresses into your network settings, the OS is still going to make plaintext requests that your ISP can snoop on unless you require it to be encrypted somehow.
Maybe try dnscrypt. If a graphical frontend is available for your OS of choice it is very simple to setup.
It was super easy on Windows, but even easier on NixOS where I just set it up without any GUI, just enabled it and that's it
You use a local DNS resolver that can handle encrypted DNS and also does ad blocking. pihole-ftl is what I've been using. Then you just set your DHCP server (your router usually) to provide the pihole server as the DNS server.
It caches entries so things you access often will resolve faster than anything you can get online, it supports all of the privacy options you could want and it also has ad blocking lists so you can block ads and trackers at the DNS level.