Welcome to the DNS Privacy project home page 
This site is the home of a collaborative open project to promote, implement and deploy DNS Privacy. The goals of this project include:
- Raising awareness of the issue of DNS Privacy
- Empowering users to take advantage of DNS Privacy tools and resources (client applications, DNS Privacy resolvers)
- Evolving the DNS to support DNS Privacy in particular developing new DNS Protocol standards
- Working towards full support for DNS Privacy in a range of Open Source DNS implementations including: getdns, Unbound, NSD, BIND and Knot (Auth and Resolver)
- Co-ordinating deployment of DNS Privacy services and documenting operational practices
Among the many contributors to this project are Sinodun IT, NLnet Labs, SalesForce, Surftnet, NLnet Foundation, OTF, Stephane Borztmeyer and No Mountain Software.
QUICK START GUIDES
FOR END USERS
- What is the problem? Read up on why DNS Privacy is an issue.
- Clients: Meet 'Stubby' - a experimental DNS Privacy stub resolver for use on client machines.
- Test servers: See information on the current list of DNS Privacy test servers available
FOR OPERATORS
- Implementation status: See the current status of DNS Privacy (using DNS-over-TLS) implementations in various DNS software
- How to run a DNS-over-TLS server: Guides on TLS proxies and key management and tools
- COMING SOON: Guidance on data handling on DNS Privacy servers
Looking for DNSCrypt? See this DNSCrypt project update
See past DNS Privacy work
December 2019:
- Good update on the latest DoH status for major browsers
- Official NGINX guide to how to set up DoT and DoH
November 2019:
- Microsoft announce plans to implement DoH in Windows.... at some point: Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
- Paul Vixie's talk on DoH at NANOG77: DNS WARS: Episode IV A New Bypass
- Letter to US Congress regarding Chromes DoH plans
- Latest version of DNS Privacy Requirements for Exchanges between Recursive Resolvers and Authoritative Servers from the IETF DPRIVE WG
- Latest proposals on 'Adaptive DNS' from DPRIVE WG
October 2019
- Comcast begin a phase one of a DoH public beta: https://doh.xfinity.com/dns-query and a DoT public beta: dot.xfinity.com
- ICANN OCTO document including evaluation of encrypted DNS: Local and Internet Policy Implications of Encrypted DNS
- Mozilla release FAQ on DoH: DNS over HTTPS FAQs.
- DNSCrypt implements a scheme similar in concept to Oblivious DNS ANONYMIZED DNSCRYPT
- Nice article on DNS Security: Threat Modeling DNSSEC, DoT, and DoH from netmeister.org
- Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre publishes a factsheet on DNS monitoring Factsheet DNS monitoring will get-harder
- Opera announces experimental support fro DoH on an opt-in basis.
September 2019
- Another blog from Bert Hubert: Centralised DoH is bad for privacy in 2019 and beyond
- IMC Paper: An Empirical Study of the Cost of DNS-over-HTTPs
- And today the Encrypted DNS Deployment Initiative launches: " a collaborative effort to ensure the smooth global adoption and reliable operation of DNS encryption technology. "
- Chrome announces experiment to upgrade to DoH with existing DNS provider
- OpenBSD has disabled DoH in their Firefox packages
- Firefox announce rollout of DoH by default in the USA during September.... and it will use Cloudflare
- And.... some reaction about the Firefox DoH announcement...
- CircleID - http://www.circleid.com/posts/20190906_dns_over_https_the_privacy_and_security_concerns/
- ISP Review - https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2019/09/headache-for-uk-isps-as-firefox-adopt-dns-over-https-by-default.html
- Think Broadband - https://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/8525-doh-on-its-way-to-firefox-for-usa-users-first
- ZDNet - https://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-to-gradually-enable-dns-over-https-for-firefox-us-users-later-this-month/
- Computer Business Review - https://www.cbronline.com/news/firefox-dns-over-https
- Engadget - https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/07/firefox-dns-over-https-by-default/
- Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/09/08/firefox-announces-major-new-encryption-default-to-protect-millions-of-users/#2ee8308518c0
- MenaFN - https://menafn.com/1098979803/India-Soon-Firefox-will-encrypt-domain-name-requests-by-default
Overview of DNS Privacy Status
High level overview of ongoing work on DNS Privacy with monthly updates
DPRIVE Working Group
Catch up with the latest standards being developed to support DNS Privacy: DPRIVE Working group
Reference Material
For a list of useful RFCs, Internet Drafts and presentations see the Reference Material page.
Support
Thanks to NLnet Foundation and OTF for donations to support DNS Privacy work. Thanks for past support from Verisign Labs.
Running a DNS Privacy server
If you are interested in contributing by running a server see our how-to guide: Running a DNS Privacy server
Contact
If you are interested in contributing to the project please contact:
- Sara Dickinson (sara@sinodun.com)
- Allison Mankin (allison.mankin@gmail.com)
- Benno Overeinder (benno@NLnetLabs.nl)
We now have a twitter account:
Comments, JIRA and Bitbucket Access
After a spate of spam comments we have reluctantly change permissions so that commenting on pages requires a user account. An account also provides access to submit general privacy issues in the issue tracker and contribute to the code repositories create a user account (note that Stubby has it's own issue tracker in github):