127.0.0.1 opendns dnscrypt install#

Then, download and install latest libsodium (it’s a dependency for which OpenSUSE doesn’t provide packages either): wget configure shouldīe most helpful in finding out the missing dependency): zypper in gcc Still, with the instructions it should be easy enough (plus in the end it works better than on Windows ))įirst, install some required stuff (may be more or less depending on what is already installed on your system – if more is required, the output on. I found it quite trivial to use on Windows (except that setting a custom DNS server doesn’t seem to work – on a side note, this test page is great to check whether or not you are currently using OpenDNS as your DNS server), but on OpenSUSE it’s quite tougher to set up, as you’ll have to compile it yourself. I’m not sure how useful it is if you’re using a VPN, but I’m more of an SSH tunnel guy and as far as I saw, about every program except Firefox (when configured properly) will still perform its DNS requests in the wild instead of via the SSH tunnel, which is kind of retarded as it defeats the purpose of the tunnel… So that’s where DNScrypt comes in handy. Also this DNS Privacy Project contains interesting information (not needed to just use DNScrypt, though).ĭNScrypt is a tool that allows you to send your DNS queries to something else than your ISP’s DNS servers, while also encrypting those DNS requests to prevent snooping. But it seems that this DNSCrypt 2 project will continue development. Update (): DNSCrypt has been discontinued (and their site is already own :/ ).