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DNSCrypt for Mageia

  DNSCrypt is a network protocol that authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System ( DNS ) traffic between the user's computer and recursive name servers, with support for modern encrypted DNS protocols such as DNSCrypt v2 , DNS-over-HTTPS , Anonymized DNSCrypt and ODoH (Oblivious DoH) . (SOURCE:  https://github.com/DNSCrypt/dnscrypt-proxy ) Prebuilt and up-to-date binaries are available for Linux, Mac, Windows and other operating systems. Download the Linux x86_64 version here . Follow installation instructions here . Alternatively, you can download the x86_64 version of dnscrypt-proxy from OpenMandriva here . It will install, but show an error that can be ignored. Configuration files are found in /etc/dnscrypt-proxy and are well commented. The default port is 53 . The binary is found at /usr/bin/dnscrypt-proxy . Documentation is found at  /usr/share/dnscrypt-proxy . Configuration for using systemd and blocklists is found at the excellent ArchLinux Wiki her...