I will be using the awesome DNSCrypt-proxy v2 by Frank Denis.įirst, open your terminal and download and untar latest DNSCrypt-proxy version: The kids laptop are running the latest version of Ubuntu - 17.10, so in this document I will show the steps I took to get DNSCrypt configured and running there.

If you are not familiar with DNSCrypt, it is a new protocol by Frank Denis and Yecheng Fu, that encrypts and authenticates all DNS traffic - Exactly what I needed to prevent any hotel or ISP from hijacking my connections. DNSCrypt to the rescueĪt first, it was frustrating to see that the filters I had manually configured were not working, but I decided to take this opportunity and take my DNS privacy seriously by leveraging DNSCrypt in there. It would not be a big deal, if wasn't for the fact that I had OpenDNS Family Filter setup on the laptop that the kids were using - and it wasn't working due to the DNS hijacking. I was at a Marriot hotel last week with my family and I noticed that they were doing DNS hijacking and redirecting all my DNS requests to their own servers.

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