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Carol Haynes:
How does this actually work then?

So you use OpenDNS-Secure to look up a website IP but when you visit the website the IP address you are going to is still clear??? Surely anyone who wants to can just do a reverse look up to find where you were going (or if is is your ISP reporting back to Big Brother lust look up the IP at their own DNS server!!!)

Am I missing the point?

Or is OpenDNS acting as an Anonymizer type service and all the traffic goes through there server so your ISP only sees you going to OpenDNS ???

Can someone explain?

db90h:
So you use OpenDNS-Secure to look up a website IP but when you visit the website the IP address you are going to is still clear??? Surely anyone who wants to can just do a reverse look up to find where you were going (or if is is your ISP reporting back to Big Brother lust look up the IP at their own DNS server!!!)
-Carol Haynes (March 28, 2012, 04:46 PM)
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Short of using an SSH Tunnel, the IP address would remain clear.

MOSTLY, the biggest deal is that DNS queries is a method that ISPs and corporations can easily use to track (or block) your behavior. Now, that easy mechanism isn't so easy.

Carol Haynes:
So because the DNS lookup is taken away from the ISP it makes it harder for them to block your surfing because they would have block IP addresses rather than block access to the domain name? Is that the point?

Surely ISPs that want to block sites can just use their own DNS server to setup IP blocking so it won't make it any easier to get to blocked sites - or are we relying on ISPs to be lazy?

Deozaan:
But I can't find the code at at the link given by @Deozan - http://blog.opendns.com/2012/03/13/call-for-beta-testers-dnscrypt-for-windows/
 - it says "Sorry, the page you tried was not found.", so it must have been taken down.

Could someone send me a link to a copy of the file please?
(Thanks.)
-IainB (March 28, 2012, 04:30 PM)
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Strange. They moved it to the 19th instead of the 13th.

http://blog.opendns.com/2012/03/19/call-for-beta-testers-dnscrypt-for-windows/

But that just has a form to fill out to apply to be a beta tester. If you just want the files, read db90h's guide. It has lots of information.

And just to make it easy, here's a direct link to the DNSCrypt download page: https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/downloads

IainB:
...They moved it to the 19th instead of the 13th....
...And just to make it easy, here's a direct link to the DNSCrypt download page: https://github.com/opendns/dnscrypt-proxy/downloads
-Deozaan (March 30, 2012, 02:11 AM)
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Thanks for the link. After posing the Q, I then did some fossicking about, and had already found the github page and downloaded the file.
I don't understand why they moved the post.

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