CentOS, DNSCrypt and pdnsd

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 22:40:27 +0000

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:

pdnsd automatic startup Arch Linux

Sat, 30 Aug 2014 11:01:53 +0000

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.

Pdnsd on nagg.eu

CentOS, DNSCrypt and pdnsd

pdnsd

pdnsd automatic startup Arch Linux