The list of public proxies is updated now and again and it's probably a
good idea to always work from the most recent list, rather than the one
that is shipped with the release. This can be crucial in case of
resolvers that are revealed to have gone rogue or otherwise have been
compromised.
Previously, the cisco resolver was used on the theory that it would
provide the best user experience regardless of location. The downsides
of cisco are 1) logging; 2) missing supoprt for DNS security extensions.
The new upstream resolver is located in Holland, supports DNS security,
and *claims* to not log activity. For users outside of Europe, this will
mean reduced performance, but I believe it's a worthy tradeoff.
Some users may wish to improve their privacy by using per-query
key pairs, which makes it more difficult for upstream resolvers to
track users across IP addresses.
- fix `enable` option description
using `mkEnableOption longDescription` is incorrect; override
`description` instead
- additional details for proper usage of the service, including
an example of the recommended configuration
- clarify `localAddress` option description
- clarify `localPort` option description
- clarify `customResolver` option description
This reverts most of 89e983786a, as those references are sanitized now.
Fixes#10039, at least most of it.
The `sane` case wasn't fixed, as it calls a *function* in pkgs to get
the default value.
The PR wasn't good enough yet.
This reverts commit b2a37ceeea8c38ec71447f8dae1e6890a8cf982d, reversing
changes made to 7fa9a1abce623aaf18b22f5dca3fc8a44a494e8d.
This reverts most of 89e983786a, as those references are sanitized now.
Fixes#10039, at least most of it.
The `sane` case wasn't fixed, as it calls a *function* in pkgs to get
the default value.
The socket definition is derived from upstream with the
exception that it does not depend on network.target, as
this creates a cycle between basic.target and sockets.target.
The apparmor profile has been updated to account for additional
runtime dependencies introduced by enabling systemd support.
This patch fixes the AppArmor profile path clause and adds
(currently ignored) network rules.
The AppArmor profile used to be defined for the path sbin/dnscrypt-proxy,
but the real path is bin/dnscrypt-proxy (due to sbin now being a symlink
to bin), which permitted the service to run unconfined.
Adding the network rules has no effect other than improving correctness,
as the version of AppArmor in the NixOS kernel fails to enforce network
rules.
The dnscrypt-proxy service relays regular DNS queries to
a DNSCrypt enabled upstream resolver.
The traffic between the client and the upstream resolver is
encrypted and authenticated, which may mitigate the risk of
MITM attacks and third-party snooping (assuming a trustworthy
upstream).
Though dnscrypt-proxy can run as a standalone DNS client,
the recommended setup is to use it as a forwarder for a
caching DNS client.
To use dnscrypt-proxy as a forwarder for dnsmasq, do
```nix
{
# ...
networking.nameservers = [ "127.0.0.1" ];
networking.dhcpcd.extraConfig = "nohook resolv.conf";
services.dnscrypt-proxy.enable = true;
services.dnscrypt-proxy.localAddress = "127.0.0.1";
services.dnscrypt-proxy.port = 40;
services.dnsmasq.enable = true;
services.dnsmasq.extraConfig = ''
no-resolv
server=127.0.0.1#40
listen-address=127.0.0.1
'';
# ...
}
```
