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DNSCrypt server with vultr.com

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Robin H edited this page Jul 21, 2022 · 13 revisions

After you have registered at vultr.com and successfully logged in. Click on Deploy New Server.

Then you have to select the location of your server. In this example I choose: Frankfurt

Select Server Type: Application -> Docker -> Cent OS 7

The 5$ variant is quite sufficient

Download and copy the following startscript (type Boot): dnscrypt_install.sh

Choose a server name and click on Deploy Now

Note: This name will automatically be the name of your resolver

The server will restart after a few minutes. Go have a cup of coffee and wait 5 - 10 minutes!

Log in via SSH (the IP address can be found in the vultr. com web interface).

You can find your stamp (and all other keys) here: cat /root/keys/provider-info.txt

In somecases if you want to run dnscrypt-proxy as a non-root user you'll get the error "[FATAL] listen udp 0.0.0.0:53: bind: permission denied"

to solve this problem you can run the following command and allow dnscrypt to have access to a low level port :

sudo setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep $(which dnscrypt-proxy)

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