DNSCrypt installation process is pretty simple since it is present in the repository, pdnsd on the other hand is missing, luckily compiling from source is not that hard. For the sake of completeness I will also cover the procedure to install DNSCrypt from source, alternatively yum install dnscrypt-proxy. Install the required dependencies and get the source code: [root@CentOS ~]# yum install gcc libsodium-devel libtool-ltdl-dev git wget [root@CentOS ~]# git clone https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy.git [root@CentOS ~]# wget http://members.home.nl/p.a.rombouts/pdnsd/releases/pdnsd-1.2.9a-par.tar.gz pdnsd Compile and install: …

I have this Arch Linux based ODROID-U3 I use as DLNA server, local web server…etc…and also as local DNS caching server. For some strange reason pdnsd doesn’t seem to start correctly on Arch Linux. [root@server ~]# systemctl status pdnsd -l ● pdnsd.service - proxy name server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/pdnsd.service; enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2000-01-01 20:02:07 CET; 14 years 7 months ago Process: 182 ExecStart=/usr/bin/pdnsd (code=exited, status=3) Main PID: 182 (code=exited, status=3) Jan 01 20:02:06 server systemd[1]: Starting proxy name server... Jan 01 20:02:06 server systemd[1]: Started proxy name server. Jan 01 20:02:06 server pdnsd[182]: Error in config file (line 11): Failed to get IP address of eth0: Cannot assign requested address Jan 01 20:02:07 server systemd[1]: pdnsd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=3/NOTIMPLEMENTED Jan 01 20:02:07 server systemd[1]: Unit pdnsd.service entered failed state. Adding After=network-online.target and Wants=network-online.target in the Unit section of the startup script doesn’t seem to make any difference. So far the only workaround which really works is adding the line After=multi-user.target in the service script. …