What is DNS Privacy and how to set it up for OpenWRT

The Domain Name System (DNS) enables your computer to find the actual addresses of other computers. So when you type fsfe.org in your browser, the DNS tells you that is the actual IP address for fsfe.org. It needs this real address to make a connection to that server and present the website hosted there to you. DNS requests leak a lot of data to anybody who can read your network traffic, because they are typically not encrypted. Every server/site you visit will be leaked in a DNS request. To solve this problem, there is DNS Privacy, a project dedicated … Continue reading