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@ -47,7 +47,10 @@ DNS over VPN is the act of routing your DNS queries over a VPN, This has about t
### Local DNS ### Local DNS
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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). 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 ## DNS protocol ratings