Dnscrypt For Mac
While I usually use a VPN in public places like cafes, I don't always do on networks I trust more, like my home or University. Nearly all of my network traffic is encrypted thanks to HTTPS, so my DNS requests are the only plaintext data I sent out in the wild.
I've been using DNS-over-TLS (DoT) on my Android phone for nearly 2 years thanks to Android's native DoT support since version 9. After doing a little bit of research a while ago, I thought it would be a hassle to use an encrypted DNS protocol on my MacBook, but it turns out to be very simple.
Since macOS does not natively support DoH or DoT, I use dnscrypt-proxy, a DNS proxy written in Go by the great Frank Denis, which support DoH and DNSCrypt as you would expect.
It is available via Homebrew:
Install dnscrypt-wrapper on Mac OSX. June 23, 2017 Amber. App name: dnscrypt-wrapper. The latest version of DNSCrypt is 1.0 on Mac Informer. It is a perfect match for Network in the System Tools category. The app is developed by AlterStep.
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Once that's done you'll want to edit /usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy.toml. Well, it will work out of the box, but I wanted to use a different resolver.
I want to filters ads and trackers at the DNS level so I use AdGuard. The id of this resolver is adguard-dns-doh. The whole list is available on the DNSCrypt website.
Let's see if dnscrypt-proxy can resolve domains:
Now let's start the service and register it so that it will automatically start during the next boot:
If you're using Wi-Fi, you can set the resolver from the command line:
Otherwise, go the the system preferences and set it yourself.
Now, by issuing a simple dig we can see that 127.0.0.1 is able to resolve DNS queries.
To see if all the queries are going through dnscrypt-proxy, you can stop the service and check that you're not able to resolve anything.
Congrats, your DNS queries are a little more private now.
While I usually use a VPN in public places like cafes, I don't always do on networks I trust more, like my home or University. Nearly all of my network traffic is encrypted thanks to HTTPS, so my DNS requests are the only plaintext data I sent out in the wild.
I've been using DNS-over-TLS (DoT) on my Android phone for nearly 2 years thanks to Android's native DoT support since version 9. After doing a little bit of research a while ago, I thought it would be a hassle to use an encrypted DNS protocol on my MacBook, but it turns out to be very simple.
Since macOS does not natively support DoH or DoT, I use dnscrypt-proxy, a DNS proxy written in Go by the great Frank Denis, which support DoH and DNSCrypt as you would expect.
It is available via Homebrew:
Once that's done you'll want to edit /usr/local/etc/dnscrypt-proxy.toml. Well, it will work out of the box, but I wanted to use a different resolver.
I want to filters ads and trackers at the DNS level so I use AdGuard. The id of this resolver is adguard-dns-doh. The whole list is available on the DNSCrypt website.
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Let's see if dnscrypt-proxy can resolve domains:
Now let's start the service and register it so that it will automatically start during the next boot:
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If you're using Wi-Fi, you can set the resolver from the command line:
Otherwise, go the the system preferences and set it yourself.
Now, by issuing a simple dig we can see that 127.0.0.1 is able to resolve DNS queries.
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To see if all the queries are going through dnscrypt-proxy, you can stop the service and check that you're not able to resolve anything.
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Congrats, your DNS queries are a little more private now.