`libunbound-dev` were installed then had to grab the 1.5.1 tarball (e.g. `aria2c https://getdnsapi.net/releases/getdns-1-5-1/getdns-1.5.1.tar.gz`), extract it and `config`/`make`/`make install` (plus `ldconfig` after).
I finally grok the getdns api so the package api is going to change wildly and fast. It's only going to support DNS over TLS but will support all types of DNS queries.
## Why?
Well, for starters, to help research DNS over TLS servers. Plus, for fun!
If you're asking "Why DNS over TLS at all?" then "faux" privacy. Why "faux"? Well, _something_ is handing your query and that something knows your IP address and what you looked for. So, you're relying on the good faith, honest nature and technical capability of the destination server to not mess with you. I don't trust Cloudflare or Google and am witholding judgement on Quad9 either way (they've been doing good things and are less "look at how cool we are" than CF is).
Also "faux" in that you're going to be using a standard port (853) and a TLS session for the queries so your internet provider will know you're doing _something_ and the current, sorry state of SSL certificates, certificate authorities, and authoritarian companies and regimes combined means confidentiality and integrity are always kinda in question unless done super-well.
## What's Different About This vs Regular DNS?
Well, if we lookup the addresses for `yahoo.com` the old-fashioned way it's cleartext UDP on the wire:
1 0.000000 10.1.10.57 → 10.1.10.200 DNS 80 Standard query 0x8af8 A yahoo.com OPT
2 0.003297 10.1.10.200 → 10.1.10.57 DNS 176 Standard query response 0x8af8 A yahoo.com A 72.30.35.10 A 98.138.219.231 A 72.30.35.9 A 98.137.246.7 A 98.138.219.232 A 98.137.246.8 OPT
I watched for port 53 UDP traffic with `tshark` as `yahoo.com` was being looked up. Notice the fast and diminuitive — and plaintext — response. (I'm fibbing a bit since I pre-loaded the local home DNS server with this query since I tested it alot before knitting this readme. My home server forwards all queries to a custom DNS over TLS server since I really don't trust any of the providers when it comes down to it. So, in reality for me, it's even slower than the below — at least initially).