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May 14, 2013, 12:42:44 PM Last edit: June 24, 2013, 11:32:03 AM by phelix |
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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=AcrylicHomeConfig file with fast Google DNS servers and .bit support via Khal's and Bitmaster's server: http://blockchained.com/stuff/AcrylicConfiguration.iniTo 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.
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May 14, 2013, 12:51:31 PM |
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thank you but why do you think "Alternate cryptocurrencies" is the right section for this? ...
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phelix (OP)
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May 14, 2013, 01:00:24 PM |
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thank you but why do you think "Alternate cryptocurrencies" is the right section for this? ...
Edited the OP. Check out http://namecoin.info
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May 15, 2013, 12:07:10 PM |
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Interesting, I wonder if there is a way to make it do look ups from a local namecoin+ncproxy or similar?
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May 15, 2013, 07:35:54 PM |
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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
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June 23, 2013, 05:24:34 PM |
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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?
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June 23, 2013, 08:51:37 PM |
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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. Homepage: http://mayakron.altervista.org/wikibase/show.php?id=AcrylicHomeConfig file with very fast Google DNS servers and .bit support: http://blockchained.com/stuff/AcrylicConfiguration.iniTo install follow the detailed instructions on the Acrylic website. It is quite easy. You can then replace the config file with the one above. Pages to check out: http://dot-bit.bit (dot-bit wiki and stuff) http://nx.bit (my namecoin page) http://bitcoin.bit (redirects to bitcoin.org) http://bitse.bit (.bit search engine) http://explorer.bit (namecoin blockexplorer) edit: Should you be worried about Google datamining your DNS requests you can of course also use your default DNS servers. works like a dream and simple to setup
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June 24, 2013, 03:35:26 AM |
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Loving it! Using it on a home server for the whole network.
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June 24, 2013, 03:54:40 AM |
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Well shit 54.235.73.82 is down
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June 24, 2013, 04:05:23 AM |
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How does this work? I followed the steps but still cant browse .bit.
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June 24, 2013, 04:20:05 AM |
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Have you used the new config, restarted, set your dns to 127.0.0.1 and restarted your computer? How does this work? I followed the steps but still cant browse .bit.
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June 24, 2013, 06:56:59 AM Last edit: June 24, 2013, 07:20:51 AM by phelix |
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Well shit 54.235.73.82 is down
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_ServersYou 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.
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June 25, 2013, 03:20:51 PM |
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You could also just use OpenNIC as the regular network DNS and get access to all those extra TLDs, with no privacy issues. Or use BlockAid and get automatic routing through government blocks back to the site you were trying to go to, and keep the OpenNIC TLDs.
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June 25, 2013, 08:27:47 PM |
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You could also just use OpenNIC as the regular network DNS and get access to all those extra TLDs, with no privacy issues. Or use BlockAid 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?
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October 01, 2013, 02:26:57 PM |
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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.. ============================================================================== Acrylic DNS Proxy Console Version Press ENTER To Quit ============================================================================== 2013-10-01 15:28:33.742 TBootstrapper.StartSystem: Loading configuration file...
2013-10-01 15:28:33.757 TBootstrapper.StartSystem: Loading hosts cache items... 2013-10-01 15:28:33.758 TBootstrapper.StartSystem: Starting resolver... 2013-10-01 15:28:33.778 TResolver.Execute: TClientServerSocket.Create: Binding t o address 0.0.0.0 and port 53 failed. Is there another DNS server/proxy running?
No other proxy running.
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October 01, 2013, 03:07:35 PM |
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Try as administrator
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October 01, 2013, 04:07:19 PM |
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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
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Galahad
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October 01, 2013, 04:31:41 PM |
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I just used Foxyproxy which is much more reliable.
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October 02, 2013, 06:55:41 AM |
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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..
lol, hope that was a typo
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Galahad
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October 02, 2013, 08:57:29 AM |
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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..
lol, hope that was a typo 192.168.0.1 This flipping circuit board
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