From 248522aaf596273d99b56590d12a6199a3553e1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: cynthia Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2025 18:50:03 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] more wording --- dnscrypt/index.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/dnscrypt/index.md b/dnscrypt/index.md index 5f6e55b..c458fef 100644 --- a/dnscrypt/index.md +++ b/dnscrypt/index.md @@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ DNS over VPN is the act of routing your DNS queries over a VPN, This has about t ### Local DNS ![](7.png) -Local DNS is the act of hosting a DNS server locally rather than using a public one on the Internet, This doesn't provide any privacy or anonymity benefits whatsoever other than the fact that the initial query (and the device who made it) is private inside your LAN, since DNS is unencrypted and the recursive queries that the DNS server makes to authoritative DNS servers is visible to any 3rd parties spying over your traffic. +Local DNS is the act of hosting a DNS server locally rather than using a public one on the Internet, This doesn't provide any privacy or anonymity benefits whatsoever other than the fact that the initial query (and the device who made it) is private inside your LAN. + +Since DNS is unencrypted, The recursive queries that the DNS server makes to authoritative DNS servers is visible to any 3rd parties spying over your traffic, which exposes what domain you are looking for. + The only reason you should be doing this is to host a PiHole or a DNS server that blocks away analytics domains, but for the sake of this blogpost, we'll be referring to a regular local DNS (with no blocking capabilities). ## DNS protocol ratings