Configuration Sources

Configuration of server sources

Instead of manually adding servers to the static section, these can be read from lists. Human-readable lists, with nice descriptions, and the corresponding stamps.

Here is an example of such a list: https://download.dnscrypt.info/dnscrypt-resolvers/v2/public-resolvers.md

Which is even more readable once rendered as Markdown: https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-resolvers/blob/master/v2/public-resolvers.md

What is the point of these lists?

First, you don't have to manually enter names and stamps any more. In fact, the [static] section is generally useless unless you run your own servers.

dnscrypt-proxy can download lists, verify them, and automatically download updates. All the resolvers defined in a list can then be used just by adding their name to the resolver_names property.

For example, the public-resolvers list above is loaded by the example configuration file. So you can use any resolver names it contains without having to provide any other information. This, for example, should work out of the box:

resolver_names = ['scaleway-fr', 'cloudflare']