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Best DNS for privacy? (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I read a bit about using a different DNS for Privacy and I think the best one should be quad9? Or is there anything better except self hosting a DNS?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You run a local resolver for your household and enable DNS encryption where supported. Using a VPN for everything removes your ISP from the loop. It's a matter of privacy layers and your threat model. If you want to play with TLAs you'll need to try way harder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If my threat model realistically involved TLAs or other state-sponsored actors I would not be advertising what I do or do not know on a public forum such as Lemmy, haha.

This conversation was in the conext of running Unbound, which is a recursive resolver and AFAIK DNS "encryption" isn't a thing in a way that helps in this scenario... DoH, DoT, and DNSCrypt are all only concerned/deployed by recursive servers, meaning unbound isn't using those. DNSSEC only provides authentication (preventing tampering) of the response, not any sort of encryption/hiding.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'm also running unbound on my opnsense, configured to use root DNS servers. Don't recall what exactly is enabled.

Yours is a good point why I should run all my traffic through a Wireguard tunnel to my dedicated server, so that my ISP is out of the loop.