Per this article from a very good IT tech website –
Enabling DNS over HTTPS (DoH) on Windows 10 | Windows OS Hub
Win 10 (version 2004 and up) now has encrypted DNS lookups via DNS over HTTPS, also known as “DoH”. The article describes a registry hack and a Network property setting to get it running.
But is it better than other techniques out there? For three years I have been doing encrypted DNS lookups via DoH on my dual-boot Win 7 + 10 PC by running the service dnscrypt-proxy, which I set up on my PC using the app Simple DNSCrypt. I did the same on my iPhone by using the apps DNSCloak or Cloudflare’s “WARP”.
DoH, Simple DNSCrypt, DNSCloak and the service dnscrypt-proxy are described on this great article at arstechnica:
How to keep your ISP’s nose out of your browser history with encrypted DNS | Ars Technica
I think (not sure) that the advantage of the service dnscrypt-proxy over the new Win 10 native DoH is that dnscrypt-proxy stores a cache of DNS lookups on my PC at 127.0.0.1, making those connections even faster. dnscrypt-proxy doesn’t go to a DNS server like 1.1.1.1 (even if the connection is now encrypted and checked) unless it needs to. I don’t think Win 10’s version of DoH does that.
What do you think?
