Combinate AirVPN Client with Acrylic DNS Proxy

[just-me 3]

There is a Software outside called Acrylic DNS Proxy

 

Acrylic is a local DNS proxy for Windows which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through a custom HOSTS file (optimized for handling hundreds of thousands of domain names) with support for wildcards and regular expressions.

When you browse a web page a portion of the loading time is dedicated to name resolution (usually from a few milliseconds to 1 second or more) while the rest is dedicated to the transfer of the web page contents and resources to your browser. What Acrylic does is to reduce the time dedicated to name resolution for frequently visited addresses closest to zero possible. It may not seem such a great optimization but in a few weeks of Internet browsing you will probably save an hour or so, which is definitely not such a bad thing. Furthermore Acrylic's sliding expiration caching mechanism, simultaneous forwarding to multiple DNS servers and support for background DNS updates are able to improve your browsing experience independently of the browser.

With Acrylic you can also gracefully overcome downtimes of your DNS servers without disrupting your work, because in that case you will at least be able to connect to your favourite websites and to your email server.

Another good thing is that Acrylic is released as open source, which means that it's free and its source code, written with Borland Delphi 7, is freely available to anyone under the GNU General Public License.

 

Sometim if I call a page from my bookmarks I must wait more then 30 sec. where I can see its a DNS response problem. So I would like to test Acrylic to see this is a way to fix this problem.

 

Do you see any chance to combinate Acrylic with the AirVPN Client (using Networklook)?

[zhang888 1066]

From the description it looks like it caches existing IPs in your local Hosts file.

This means that you can already start using it with AirVPN client and network lock, it shoud work fine.

 

On a side note, it is highly unlikely that you wait for 30 seconds for a DNS query. This is a very small (few bytes)

request and response, and should take less than a second on most networks, even sattelite.

[just-me 3]

@zhang888

 

I only have G3 / G4 Internet over a surfstick and before I used VPN I was using DNSCrypt and never had this problem, but maybe it is my AirVPN Client configuration. I am using SSL on Port 443

 

 

and the AirVPN Client sets DNS to

 

 

and this is the point where I see the configuration problem. If you use Acrylic you must set DNS to 127.0.0.1

 

 

and that's the point where I don't no what to do