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what's a good alternative?
by philfrasty 10y ago
what's a good alternative?
- admax88q 10y agoOpenDNS supports DNSCrypt. 208.67.222.222 Although they've been bought by Cisco recently. You could also just run your own local caching resolver that hits the real root nameservers for lookup.
- chillydawg 10y agoRunning a real, public DNS server is a highly skilled, full time job. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole and I (roughly) know how to do it.
- ReverseCold 10y agoNot public, probably just a local server for personal use.
- Elhana 10y agoIt doesn't have to be public.
- mike-cardwell 10y agoRunning "apt-get install unbound" on your laptop/desktop gives you a local caching recursive resolver which performs dnssec validation. Doesn't sound like a full time job to me.
- krylon 10y agoBut then, unbound is not a "real, public DNS server".
- mike-cardwell 10y agoIt is not no. chillydawg made the mistake of conflating the two things. Running a, "real, public DNS server" is not required in order to do DNS lookups without using somebody elses recursive resolver.
- basemi 10y agoOpenNIC [https://www.opennicproject.org/ https://www.opennicproject.org/]
- thinkling 10y agoI like the idea behind OpenNIC and tried it for a few months, but found it less reliable than I wanted it to be.