DNS resolver options

[gjaltemba]

For years my setup used my own off-firewall recursive dns resolver. Recently I changed over to Cloudflare and Quad9 dns-over-tls for better performance.

If you like to play,

[Tutorial] DNS-over-TLS with dnsmasq and stubby (no need for unbound)

All the guides I see for using DNS-over-TLS on OpenWRT require unbound, what I found out is that in fact you only need stubby, which does the DNS-over-TLS and acts as a proxy for DN resolution. Stubby is simple to configure and dnsmasq can point to this proxy instead and continue to do all the things it needs to do such as domain name caching. Because I have this setup running in a old router (4/32) without much space on the overlay to install stubby and its dependencies I have it setup so it …