Seggestion: DNSCrypt nodes operated by AirVPN

[zhang888 1066]

Hello,

During the past year the DNScrypt project became very actively deployed, both on client OS (Win/*nix) and on some routers with OpenWRT/Pfsense.

 

For now, the availability of resolving servers there is very limited, most of them are provided by volunteers, including OpenNIC:

 

https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/blob/master/dnscrypt-resolvers.csv

 

 

I suggest that if Air could "open" their own resolver to the public, it would be very helpful, here are some benefits:

 

1) The more users that will use those servers, the more anonymous Air's users will be. Since there will be a greater number of queries.

2) The Air client can be upgraded in the future to support this (optional), at least the official DNScrypt opensource client will include those servers for sure.

That means more decentralization, because your AirVPN exit node won't see your DNS queries anymore.

3) As I mentioned above, the servers are handling lots of queries and this could be an alternative way of donation to OpenNIC.

4) "Free" commercial for Air.

 

 

Thanks!

[Staff 9972]

Hello,

we know how DNScrypt works.

Every VPN server has its resolver. When an authoritative DNS receive a query from our server (for example Castor), actually may know (if it knows the Castor exit-IP address) that the domain is requested by an AirVPN customer. Absolutely no information about which customer.

 

Your suggestion doesn't really provide any benefit. And opening servers for public access (anyway even if limited to DNS) may expose them to other kind of troubles. Also it makes no sense to support DNScrypt in our client. When you are connected to the VPN, DNS queries are already encrypted. If you mean 'using DNScrypt when not connected to a VPN', this can be eventually done, but it sounds like bloatware, it's better to have a dedicated DNScrypt client.

What we might do is funding a DNScrypt resolver node on a dedicated server (that can resolve ICANN domains, OpenNIC domains and NameCoin domains at the same time, like our VPN servers) or a project for a better client. We'll think about that.

 

Kind regards