Wikimedia DNS
10 months ago
- #Censorship
- #Privacy
- #DNS
- Wikimedia DNS is a public DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) and DNS-over-TLS (DoT) resolver service aimed at preventing surveillance and censorship.
- The service is currently in beta, with no guarantees of reliability or future availability.
- DNS queries and responses are typically unencrypted, posing privacy and security risks.
- DoH and DoT encrypt DNS queries, preventing on-path observers from seeing or censoring them.
- Wikimedia DNS helps combat DNS-based censorship of Wikimedia projects, which has been observed in various countries.
- The service is not a VPN and does not relay communication contents or change user IP addresses.
- Users need a DoH or DoT-enabled client to use Wikimedia DNS, with no extra software required.
- The service is accessible via hostname (wikimedia-dns.org) or IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6).
- Wikimedia DNS supports strong encryption protocols, including TLSv1.3 and TLSv1.2 (AEAD ciphers only).
- The project aligns with Wikimedia Foundation's goals for privacy, security, and combating censorship.