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Magan – A DoH Server

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Am I right that this is a forwarding, non-caching DNS server?

Yes, currently these two variants don't cache; my primary use case was to use as source for PiHole/dnsmasq. I've a Python version in the works that would cache based on TTL.

OK, thank you. I will keep following this project. I see two main reasons to run my own DNS server: privacy and performance. DoH sufficiently solves the privacy aspect, but for performance a caching mechanism is necessary.

Good point.

Can you pls give the Python3 variant a try? It supports caching:

https://evuraan.info/evuraan/stuff/magan/magan.py.txt

You'd need scapy for Python3:

  $ pip3 install scapy-python3
  $ wget https://evuraan.info/evuraan/stuff/magan/magan.py.txt  -O magan.py 
  $ chmod 755 magan.py
  $ ./magan.py --help
    Usage:
    -h  --help         print this usage and exit
    -p  --port         alternate port to listen
    -v  --version      print version information and exit

I'd love to hear your feedback, thanks!

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