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
August 2020
- ADD WG starts initial work on requirements for discovery mechanisms draft-pauly-add-requirements
- DPRIVE WG sees support for working on opportunistic encryption for recursive to authoritative
- Microsoft addDoH settings to Windows 10 review build and
July 2020
- IETF 108:
- ADD WG decides to back to analysing the requirements after reviewing the current proposals
- DPRIVE WG: Zone transfers over TLS discussed
- Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20185 includes DoH configuration options for recognised resolvers
- ZDNet article: Iranian hacker group becomes first known APT to weaponize DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)
- IETF BCP Recommendations for DNS Privacy Service Operators is approved for publication
June 2020
- Comcast become the first ISP to join Mozilla's Firefox TRR program
- OONI publish a study showing 57% of well known DoT endpoints are blocking in Iran
- Apple announce DoT and DoH support and an API for apps to configure their own encrypted resolver
- Searching in the address bar can leak DNS queries on the local network in Chrome and Firefox
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):
