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Acrylic DNS Proxy is a cool open source tool to locally proxy and cache your dns requests. This will save you a couple milliseconds on page loads making browsing feel more fluent. It also lets you query multiple DNS servers at once to proceed with the fastest response.

Also it is quite easy to set it up with additional Namecoin based dot-bit dns servers for *.bit dns queries.

Acrylic homepage:
http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHome

Config file with fast Google DNS servers and .bit support via Khal's and Bitmaster's server:
http://blockchained.com/stuff/AcrylicConfiguration.ini

To install follow the detailed instructions on the Acrylic website. It is quite easy. You can then replace the config file with the one above.

If you feel uncomfortable about Google seeing your non .bit DNS requests you can use your regular DNS servers from your internet provider by doing this: In the configuration file above replace both Google servers 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 by the ip address of your local network standard gateway ip address (192.168.0.1 on most systems) or other DNS servers of your choice (both fields need to be set).


Pages to check out:
http://dot-bit.bit  (dot-bit wiki and stuff)
http://nx.bit  (my namecoin page)
http://bitse.bit  (.bit search engine)
http://explorer.bit  (namecoin blockexplorer)
http://bitcointalk.bit, http://bct.bit  (redirects to this forum)

Repeatedly edited.

thank you
but why do you think "Alternate cryptocurrencies" is the right section for this? ...

Edited the OP. Check out http://namecoin.info

Interesting, I wonder if there is a way to make it do look ups from a local namecoin+ncproxy or similar?

Should work with nmcsocks and the dns option...

http://dot-bit.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=219

This was super useful.

.bit domains are working for me now without using browser extensions or web-proxies. Thank you!

Btw, is there a solution that works for Android as well?

works like a dream and simple to setup

Loving it! Using it on a home server for the whole network.

Well shit 54.235.73.82 is down

How does this work? I followed the steps but still cant browse .bit.

Have you used the new config, restarted, set your dns to 127.0.0.1 and restarted your computer?

Thanks for the hint. I replaced it with Khal's server in the config above. Hmm seems like there is no server in the US then currently...

For those who have not yet seen it, there is a page with Namecoin DNS servers here: http://dot-bit.org/List_Of_DNS_Servers

You can edit the acrylic configuration file via start-->programs-->acrylic dns proxy-->edit configuration file and change the tertiary and QuaternaryServerAddress to the server of your choice (might want to ping the server before to check if it is working and responding fast from your location).

Google makes me somewhat uncomfortable these days...   USUALLY the ip 192.168.0.1 will lead to the DNS servers of your internet provider so you can try to replace the first Google DNS server 8.8.8.8 with that and remove the second one 8.8.4.4 for a little more privacy.

You could also just use OpenNIC (https://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC4QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.opennicproject.org%2F&ei=dLXJUeuYL6qBygHez4HgAQ&usg=AFQjCNE_rZXjoO3Z8THxcAZRBTioSW1_ug&sig2=fTrh2X-SZT8zjO9CbONU9Q&bvm=bv.48293060,d.aWc) as the regular network DNS and get access to all those extra TLDs, with no privacy issues.

Or use BlockAid (http://www.blockaid.me/) and get automatic routing through government blocks back to the site you were trying to go to, and keep the OpenNIC TLDs.

For me they are slightly slower...   but probably it is hardly noticably. Are they stable?

Why does no proxy system in the whole world work for me? I installed it, I even changed my primary dns to 12.0.0.1 as request, flush dns cache, restart browser, does not work..


No other proxy running.

Try as administrator

also note.. if anyone uses Khals dns server they should really donate to him (if they can) imo, many people/apps are using it.. but seems he's received nothing in recent times

NMC: N1KHAL5C1CRzy58NdJwp1tbLze3XrkFxx9 | BTC: 1KHAL8bUjnkMRMg9yd2dNrYnJgZGH8Nj6T

I just used Foxyproxy which is much more reliable.

lol, hope that was a typo

192.168.0.1

This flipping circuit board (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahKH19iN2SM)

192 is a bad idea. Use 127

:D 127.0.0.1 as it even sayz in the manuals

For what purpose should I use my .bit domain and why am I required to download the entire blockchain to utilize one? Where is it that domains get incorporated into blockchain?

namecoin ====> incredible this is not getting more attention 8)