koho / https_dns_proxy

A lightweight DNS-over-HTTPS proxy.

https-dns-proxy

https_dns_proxy is a light-weight DNS<-->HTTPS, non-caching translation proxy for the RFC 8484 DNS-over-HTTPS standard. It receives regular (UDP) DNS requests and issues them via DoH.

Google's DNS-over-HTTPS service is default, but Cloudflare's service also works with trivial commandline flag changes.

Using Google

# ./https_dns_proxy -u nobody -g nogroup -d -b 8.8.8.8,8.8.4.4 \
    -r "https://dns.google/dns-query"

Using Cloudflare

# ./https_dns_proxy -u nobody -g nogroup -d -b 1.1.1.1,1.0.0.1 \
    -r "https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"

Why?

Using DNS over HTTPS makes eavesdropping and spoofing of DNS traffic between you and the HTTPS DNS provider (Google/Cloudflare) much less likely. This of course only makes sense if you trust your DoH provider.

Features

• Tiny Size (<30kiB).
• Uses curl for HTTP/2 and pipelining, keeping resolve latencies extremely low.
• Single-threaded, non-blocking select() server for use on resource-starved embedded systems.
• Designed to sit in front of dnsmasq or similar caching resolver for transparent use.

Build

Depends on c-ares (>=1.11.0), libcurl (>=7.66.0), libev (>=4.25), gtest.

On Debian-derived systems those are libc-ares-dev, libcurl4-{openssl,nss,gnutls}-dev, libev-dev and libgtest-dev respectively. On Redhat-derived systems those are c-ares-devel, libcurl-devel, libev-devel and gtest-devel, .

On MacOS, you may run into issues with curl headers. Others have had success when first installing curl with brew.

brew install curl --with-openssl --with-c-ares --with-libssh2 --with-nghttp2 --with-gssapi --with-libmetalink
brew link curl --force

On Ubuntu

apt-get install cmake libc-ares-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libev-dev

If all pre-requisites are met, you should be able to build with:

$ cmake .
$ make

INSTALL

There is no installer at this stage - just run it.

OpenWRT package install

I maintain a package in the OpenWRT packages repository as well. You can install as follows:

root@OpenWrt:~# opkg update
root@OpenWrt:~# opkg install https_dns_proxy
root@OpenWrt:~# /etc/init.d/https_dns_proxy enable
root@OpenWrt:~# /etc/init.d/https_dns_proxy start

Replace any 'list server' lines in /etc/config/dhcp with:

list server '127.0.0.1#5053'

You may also want to add the line:

noresolv '1'

This prevents dnsmasq from using /etc/resolv.conf DNS servers, leaving only our proxy server.

archlinux package install

There is also an externally maintained AUR package for latest git version. You can install as follows:

user@arch:~# yaourt -S https-dns-proxy-git

Usage

Just run it as a daemon and point traffic at it. Commandline flags are:

Usage: ./https_dns_proxy [-a <listen_addr>] [-p <listen_port>]
        [-d] [-u <user>] [-g <group>] [-b <dns_servers>]
        [-r <resolver_url>] [-e <subnet_addr>]
        [-t <proxy_server>] [-l <logfile>] [-x] [-v]+

  -a listen_addr         Local IPv4/v6 address to bind to. (127.0.0.1)
  -p listen_port         Local port to bind to. (5053)
  -d                     Daemonize.
  -u user                Optional user to drop to if launched as root.
  -g group               Optional group to drop to if launched as root.
  -b dns_servers         Comma-separated IPv4/v6 addresses and ports (addr:port)
                         of DNS servers to resolve resolver host (e.g. dns.google).
                         When specifying a port for IPv6, enclose the address in [].
                         (8.8.8.8,1.1.1.1,8.8.4.4,1.0.0.1,145.100.185.15,145.100.185.16,185.49.141.37)
  -4                     Force IPv4 hostnames for DNS resolvers non IPv6 networks.
  -r resolver_url        The HTTPS path to the resolver URL. default: https://dns.google/dns-query
  -t proxy_server        Optional HTTP proxy. e.g. socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
                         Remote name resolution will be used if the protocol
                         supports it (http, https, socks4a, socks5h), otherwise
                         initial DNS resolution will still be done via the
                         bootstrap DNS servers.
  -l logfile             Path to file to log to. ("-")
  -x                     Use HTTP/1.1 instead of HTTP/2. Useful with broken
                         or limited builds of libcurl. (false)
  -v                     Increase logging verbosity. (INFO)

TODO

• Add some tests.

Authors

• Aaron Drew ([email protected]): Original https_dns_proxy.
• Soumya (github.com/soumya92): RFC 8484 implementation.