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authorT3slider <t3slider@gmail.com>2017-07-17 06:46:41 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2017-07-22 06:55:34 +0700
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tree7e74a225406ae08e658637ec1ed809a677935407 /network/dnscrypt-proxy/README.Slackware
parent5043bde2a4c2e88f8d10b39842c6076c582ab286 (diff)
network/dnscrypt-proxy: Updated for version 1.9.5.
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
A. Setup
An init script and configuration file have been provided to run dnscrypt-proxy
-as a daemon. To configure dnscrypt-proxy, edit /etc/default/dnscrypt-proxy with
-the desired settings. By default dnscrypt-proxy will use an OpenDNS server and
-will run on localhost (127.0.0.1), port 53.
+as a daemon. To configure dnscrypt-proxy, edit /etc/dnscrypt-proxy.conf with
+the desired settings. By default dnscrypt-proxy will use a random DNS server
+and will run on localhost (127.0.0.1), port 53.
The configuration file is setup to use a dnscrypt user by default, and to
chroot into that user's home directory to maximize security. In order to use
@@ -13,9 +13,9 @@ following commands:
groupadd -g 293 dnscrypt
useradd -u 293 -g 293 -c "DNSCrypt" -d /run/dnscrypt -s /bin/false dnscrypt
-If you decide to use another user you should edit the CHROOTDIR and USER
-options in /etc/default/dnscrypt-proxy (there are example settings provided for
-the user 'nobody').
+If you decide to use another user you should edit the CHROOTDIR option in
+/etc/default/dnscrypt-proxy and the User setting in /etc/dnscrypt-proxy.conf
+(there are example settings provided for the user 'nobody').
In order to send all DNS requests through dnscrypt-proxy, you will need to
update /etc/resolv.conf to point to localhost. If using dhcpcd, the easiest way
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ To properly stop dnscrypt-proxy on system shutdown, add the following to
B. DNS Cache
-dnscrypt-proxy is just a DNS resolver and does not cache DNS queries. In order
-to minimize the number of external DNS lookups, you can also run a local
+dnscrypt-proxy provides limited control over how it caches DNS queries. In
+order to minimize the number of external DNS lookups, you can also run a local
caching DNS server. A sample configuration for dnsmasq (included with
Slackware) is provided at /usr/doc/dnscrypt-proxy-@VERSION@/dnsmasq.conf. A
sample configuration for bind/named that also does local DNSSEC validation (if
@@ -53,4 +53,4 @@ supported by the upstream DNS server) is also provided at
/usr/doc/dnscrypt-proxy-@VERSION@/named.conf. Both configurations run on port
53, forwarding lookups to dnscrypt-proxy running on port 55. In order to use
these configurations you will need to change the port dnscrypt-proxy runs on in
-/etc/default/dnscrypt-proxy.
+/etc/dnscrypt-proxy.conf.