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How to Getting Started using Adguard dnsproxy (https://github.com/AdguardTeam/dnsproxy) on Windows. Simple and flexible by utilizing vbs script
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readme.md

Quick & Simple Way using Adguard "dnsproxy" on Windows:

  1. Put executable you get from release page, or consider use the custom build one (more on this later) -- on %appdata%\dnsproxy
  2. Put this VBScript on Startup folder:
    • Your user startup at shell:startup OR All Users startup at shell:common startup
  3. Create shortcut of previously saved VBScript on the Startup folder to Desktop for easier access (Useful on the event of dnsproxy may seems to hang)
    • Plus, you can change the shortcut icon as you wish :)
  4. Customize dnsproxy options as you like by changing the L4 of dnsproxy.vbs. For available options, learn more on dnsproxy README file.
    • I put bare config: primary upstream (-u) using Cloudflare DNS and fallback (-f) using Quad9 DNS (both in DNS-over-TLS); with 1MB in-memory cache (--cache --cache-size=<int in Bytes>); listen on localhost (-l 127.0.0.1)
  5. Finish! Now dnsproxy always start on boot, and if needed, restart using shortcut we made on the desktop.

It is better to have dnsproxy.exe exec compiled as windowsgui.

  • This will remove dependency of shell host 'Console Window Host' as we don't need shell and it's daemonized on the background afterall.

  • You may want to use x86 exec, as I notice lower memory footprint on x86 builds. so first set GOARCH to 386

    go env -w GOARCH=386

  • Use this go build command after you clone the repo and also you may also need to checkout to stable tags/version:

    go build -mod=vendor -ldflags "-s -w -X main.VersionString=<TYPE VERSION HERE>" -H windowsgui

  • Note that this executable will not output anything, so it's not debuggable. Logging in this mode only can be achieved if somehow dnsproxy maintainer adds 'logging to file' function.

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dnsproxy-manager.vbs
Set Shell = CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Shell.Run "taskkill /F /im dnsproxy.exe", 0, False
WScript.Sleep 1000
Shell.Run "%APPDATA%\dnsproxy\dnsproxy.exe -u tls://1.1.1.1 -f tls://9.9.9.9 -l 127.0.0.1 --cache --cache-size=1000000", 0, False
MsgBox "dnsproxy restarted",64,"Adguard dnsproxy"
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