Mac OS X; using home-brew, dnscrypt-proxy. Want to use alternate DNS server such as OpenNIC

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9da4bf5e

March 01, 2014 08:13

I'd like to use CloudNS or OpenNIC with dnscrypt using the dnscrypt-proxy under terminal.

My command line skill is very very basic.

Could you possibly give me step by step instructions to use one of these (or similar) DNS services with dnscrypt, instead of Open DNS?

I'm at the limits of what I can understand with this endeavor, please excuse my ignorance and thanks in advance. :) Thank you.

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  rotblitz March 01, 2014 14:00

  "Could you possibly give me step by step instructions to use one of these (or similar) DNS services with dnscrypt, instead of Open DNS?"

  Step by step?  There is just one step...

  See http://dnscrypt.org/ under Usage.

  dnscrypt-proxy --help
  dnscrypt-proxy 1.3.3

  Options:
    -a    --local-address=...
    -e    --edns-payload-size=...
    -h    --help
    -k    --provider-key=...
    -m    --loglevel=...
    -n    --max-active-requests=...
    -X    --plugin=...
    -r    --resolver-address=...
    -u    --user=...
    -N    --provider-name=...
    -t    --test=...
    -T    --tcp-only
    -V    --version

  That said:  dnscrypt-proxy --resolver-address=RESOLVER_ADDRESS

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  jedisct1 March 01, 2014 21:13

  Do not forget the provider name and the provider key.

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  9da4bf5e March 02, 2014 09:05

  Thanks, but entering even the basic command of "dnscrypt-proxy" gives me this error

  "-bash: dnscrypt-proxy: command not found"

  I clearly am pretty clueless with unix commands. Any ideas why this command is not found?

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  rotblitz March 02, 2014 13:27

  You need to cd to the directory where the dnscrypt-proxy is located, or you need to specify the directory path.

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  jedisct1 March 02, 2014 22:34

  /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy should work.

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  9da4bf5e March 03, 2014 04:39

  fellows; I am getting somewhere.

  /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy

  did indeed help.

  ls command replies with:

  dnscrypt-proxy

  The command I input then was:

  /usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy --resolver-address=113.20.6.2:443 --provider-name=2.dnscrypt-cert.cloudns.com.au --provider-key=1971:7C1A:C550:6C09:F09B:ACB1:1AF7:C349:6425:2676:247F:B738:1C5A:243A:C1CC:89F4 

  I was replied with:

  [INFO] Initializing libsodium for optimal performance

  [INFO] Generating a new key pair

  [INFO] Done

  [ERROR] Unable to bind (UDP) [Permission denied]

  Question:

  1. what does the error message mean?

  2. how can I fix it?

  3. how can I then confirm dnscryp-proxy is indeed running and using CloudNS?

  Thank you for your patience. I'm sure this will help other Mac users in the future.

   

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  9da4bf5e March 07, 2014 00:34

  bump

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  jedisct1 March 07, 2014 00:34

  Type 'sudo' before '/usr/local/sbin/dnscrypt-proxy'

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