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# 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.
=> https://stanislas.blog/2019/11/doh-macos-dnscrypt-proxy/ 1: https://stanislas.blog/2019/11/doh-macos-dnscrypt-proxy/
I'll see over the next week how this one performs.
### Related posts:
=> /gemlog/tags/dns Posts with tag 'dns'
=> /gemlog/tags/dnscrypt-proxy Posts with tag 'dnscrypt-proxy'
``` Post metadata
tags: DNS, dnscrypt-proxy
timestamp: 2020-10-04 21:09:28
```
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