This project will do 3 things:
- Encrypt your DNS requests
- Serve DNS requests for internal domains
- Cache DNS requests for faster browsing
To do that it uses a dnsmasq server and a dnscrypt proxy.
It will encrypt your DNS requests by relaying upstream dns requests through a local dnscrypt proxy.
By default it contains an example extra_hosts file with an entry for a router pointing to 192.168.1.1.
After starting the containers you will be able to nslookup router.home.local localhost and have 192.168.1.1 returned.
It's recommended to create your own extra_hosts file with the entries you want.
The image also contains a *.docker.local domain pointing to 192.168.1.2 which enables this to be used with jwilders nginx-proxy for easy access to your local docker containers.
For instance I just need to type grafana.docker.local in my browser to access Grafana. No port conflicts!
The last 5000 DNS requests are cached for their public time to live (or until these container is restarted) which will mean faster browsing since you won't need to query external servers each time anymore.
docker-compose up. That's it!
An example docker-compose file is included.
It's recommended to change the dnscrypt provider to one close to your location. Here is a list of provider