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    How to install DNSCRYPT from OpenDNS in pfSense

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      fsansfil
      last edited by

      FYI

      Humm, just updated to 2.2 BETA RC4 Nov 3…and I cant seem to make it work...

      :(

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        Paul47
        last edited by

        Is priller's 2.2 procedure supposed to work with 2.1.X?

        If I understand properly, this looks a bit of a kludge, e.g. having to recreate rc.conf every time it boots. And just being outside the supported pfsense software, requiring re-install after every upgrade of pfsense (apparently). It would be nice if we could have this as part of pfsense in some future release, in this post-Snowden world… also would increase the appeal of pfsense, I think.

        (later) Ah, never mind, I see that dnscrypt is only an opendns product.

        (later yet) But they submitted the source on github...

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          fsansfil
          last edited by

          I remenber donwloading the app on MAC OS like 7 years ago, back then it was OpenDNS only…

          Right now, OpenDNS is indeed default, but you can change it....check the screenshot.

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            priller
            last edited by

            @Paul47:

            If I understand properly, this looks a bit of a kludge, e.g. having to recreate rc.conf every time it boots. And just being outside the supported pfsense software, requiring re-install after every upgrade of pfsense (apparently). It would be nice if we could have this as part of pfsense in some future release, in this post-Snowden world… also would increase the appeal of pfsense, I think.

            It will survive an upgrade.  I have upgraded 2.2-BETA multiple times and it survives.

            I agree, it would be nice for DNScrypt to be a supported part of pfSense or at least an official package.  (not in my skill set to do that)

            Yes, you can use any of the other DNScrypt capable servers included in  the /usr/local/share/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-resolvers.csv file by specifying the desired one with the –resolver-name=  option.

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              fsansfil
              last edited by

              Heres the way I made it work with latest beta 2.2

              1. Install

              2. to start : dnscrypt-proxy -R opendns –local-address=127.0.0.1:42 --daemonize

              3. Add : server=127.0.0.1#42  ...in advanced options of dnsmasq

              4. General Setup Tab : dns servers add : 127.0.0.1 ...dont select any GW

              5. Make a quick rule on WAN, UDP/TCP ... block all sport and dport 53

              F.

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                Gery
                last edited by

                Here is what I did for PFSense 2.2 RC and Unbound (it's quite similar to what fsansfil did):

                1. Shell: pkg install dnscrypt-proxy

                2. mv /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh

                3. chmod 744 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh (make sure the file is executable)

                4. added to /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh (like in the google docs file)

                echo 'dnscrypt_proxy_enable="YES"' > /etc/rc.conf
                echo 'dnscrypt_proxy_flags="-a 127.0.0.1:42"' >> /etc/rc.conf

                I also changed a line to use a different resolver as opendns:
                : ${dnscrypt_proxy_resolver=dnscrypt.eu-nl} # resolver to use

                1. /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh start

                2. General Setup Tab: Add dns server: 127.0.0.1 without any Gateway, I also added the OpenDNS Servers as fallback in case anything isn't working

                3. Services -> DNS Resolver

                Make sure DNS Query Forwarding is unchecked

                Put into Advanced section:

                
server:
do-not-query-localhost: no

forward-zone:
  name: "."  
  forward-addr: 127.0.0.1@42

                Edit: Updated my changes

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                  MisterY
                  last edited by

                  I followed these instructions, though I'm on 2.2 (not 2.2 RC) and things went swimmingly until I tried to do step 5:

                  /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh start
                  Starting dnscrypt_proxy.
                  ./dnscrypt-proxy.sh: WARNING: failed to start dnscrypt_proxy

                  and that was that.  It didn't create any entries in any log I could find, so the only thing I could think of to look at (not being FreeBSD savvy) was the executable:

                  file /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy
                  /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.0 (1000510), stripped

                  and not really knowing what to look for, I compared it to another file:

                  file /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq
                  /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.1, stripped

                  where I see that one difference of the FreeBSD version number - can this be my problem?

                  TIA!

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                    ESPNSTI
                    last edited by

                    I recently installed dnscrypt on 2.2 following these instructions and everything is working fine for me.

                    This is what I get from file /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy :
                    dnscrypt-proxy: ELF 32-bit LSB shared object, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.0 (1000510), stripped

                    file /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq shows this:
                    dnsmasq: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.1, stripped

                    The /var/log/dnscrypt-proxy.log file does have some content for me.

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                      kejianshi
                      last edited by

                      You know, for me it seems that rather than inventing DNS crypt, they would simply have offered a vpn that tunnels only port 53 to their servers….

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                        Mithrondil
                        last edited by

                        This would be so much easier if somebody created a package for dnscrypt.

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                          manaox2
                          last edited by

                          @MisterY:

                          I followed these instructions, though I'm on 2.2 (not 2.2 RC) and things went swimmingly until I tried to do step 5:

                          /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dnscrypt-proxy.sh start
                          Starting dnscrypt_proxy.
                          ./dnscrypt-proxy.sh: WARNING: failed to start dnscrypt_proxy

                          and that was that.  It didn't create any entries in any log I could find, so the only thing I could think of to look at (not being FreeBSD savvy) was the executable:

                          file /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy
                          /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy: ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.0 (1000510), stripped

                          and not really knowing what to look for, I compared it to another file:

                          file /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq
                          /usr/local/sbin/dnsmasq: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for FreeBSD 10.1, stripped

                          where I see that one difference of the FreeBSD version number - can this be my problem?

                          TIA!

                          I have the same problem. Now DNSCrypt has many more arguments required to start such as a UID. Not sure if that effects running on pfsense.

                          file /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy
                          ELF 64-bit LSB shared object, x86-64, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked, interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1, for FreeBSD 10.1, stripped

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                            jeffhammett
                            last edited by

                            I setup DNSCrypt on pfSense 2.2.5 with DNS Resolver following a combination of the two below instructions:

                            https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q8Deap2Yt3UKcMAP7t6PGf_IVbFsD9rk3E6jhuL1RoM/edit?pli=1
                            http://citisky.net/installing-dnscrypt-onto-pfsense-2-2-x/

                            Everything is working great but I'd like to set it up to fail open to use plain text DNS should the DNSCrypt server stop working for any reason.

                            As it is now I have DNS Forwarding unchecked in the DNS Resolver and the following entered in Advanced:

                            do-not-query-localhost: no

forward-zone:
 name: "."
 forward-addr: 127.0.0.1@40

                            In my System-> General Setup I have 127.0.0.1 followed by two other public IP servers. I then stopped DNSCrypt and tried a DNS query on my pfSense but it did not work.

                            I assume I could add:

                            forward-addr: 127.0.0.1

                            to the DNS Resolver advanced settings, but I wasn't sure how to ensure that all queries go through DNSCrypt on port 40 and to only fall back to plain text DNS if DNSCrypt is down.

                            Any help is appreciated.

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                              yop038
                              last edited by

                              for 2.3 => https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=111895.0

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                                chrcoluk
                                last edited by

                                pkg: No packages available to install matching 'dnscrypt-proxy' have been found in the repositories

                                pfSense CE 2.8.0

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