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[zoonderkins]

Failover strategy

When the local DNS resolver is busy, it will forward to Quad9 9.9.9.9 upstream.

Default block list

Monitoring/analytics isn't allowed in my opinion

# Bugsnag
https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/erv3xi/software_devs_bugsnag_is_blocked/ff65d3e | https://archive.is/vi8Ni

# Sentry
https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/blame/b3369bd0356ca2bde7ca99393796f260e92234b3/ads-and-tracking.txt#L361

# Datadog
https://github.com/lightswitch05/hosts/issues/284

Year 2023

• The server in Japan is experiencing issues; our provider is still investigating it. For more information, please visit: https://status.hosthatch.com/
• Japan DoH currently shutdown due to high demand of traffic (2023-04-02)

Year 2022

Nov

• Japan server has been migrate to HostHatch. (2022-11-01)
• Japan and Singapore region currently unstable due to network congestion. We try to migrate to other provider soon. (Infra donation needed)

April

• Disable DoH CDN
• Disable Uncensored path for DoH

Year 2021

October

• Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 has been expired, all Servers SSL CA provider has been switch to ZeroSSL
• iOS 14, 15 native DoT / DoH config file, check out https://encrypted-dns.party/ | Credit to: @nitrohorse

August

• SSL renewed, will be expired at 2021-11-15

July

• DNS over HTTPS (HTTP3) is now on all server in BETA stage. (port 443 UDP)

April

• Dnscryptv2 UDP connection having performance issue though it has been fixed with new KEYS, make sure to check it out the LATEST Configuration ... !!!
• Bye Google Analytics, Welcome GoatCounter... BlahDNS site now use GoatCounter and we degoogled !!! (Google Analytics) 2021-04-24
• DNS over Quic - Draft 2 quic://dot-jp.blahdns.com:784 | quic://dot-sg.blahdns.com:784 | quic://dot-ch.blahdns.com:784 | quic://dot-fi.blahdns.com:784 | quic://dot-de.blahdns.com:784 (feedback needed)

Feb

1. German server has increased connection limit due to rate limit per IP slowing down DNS resolution. (2021-02-03)
2. Japan & Singapore migrate to Linode provider.
3. Switzerland server IPv6 cannot reach out issue has been fixed.
4. DNSCrypt TCP connection issue fixed.
5. Japan and Singapore server will be migrated from Vultr to Linode (2021-02-17), Old server going to shut down at the end of February 2021
6. Switzerland server now in BETA (2021-01-01)

Jan

1. Switzerland server in BETA -- donation need (10 EUR/month)
2. Japan server reinstall

Year 2020

October

1. Germany server is having an IPv6 connection issue, Already contact Hetnzer support to investigate.(2020/10/10, 19:30 CST)
2. Automate AdBlock sources update on server / CDN

September

1. Singapore server, Done
2. Update stubby configuration

August

1. Prevent from CNAME Cloaking feature is confirmed. (DoH with /uncensor won't have this feature)
2. Singapore Server

July

1. Singapore server will be soon ready to roll as a production-ready server. Thanks for the awesome tester.
2. Will try to add no-facebook, no-google, no-amazon, no-fg, no-fga on DoH server, location: WIP
3. What will be your next recommend location

• Take survey See result

April

1. Add Singapore server BETA. Support DoH (dns-query and uncensor)[https://doh-sg.blahdns.com/dns-query], DoT[ dot-sg.blahdns.com] (port 853, 443) .

March

1. Add DoH path with dns-query as filtered, uncensor without filter.
2. Google Analytics tracking script url:www.google-analytics.com is blocked, but Admin panel for site admin not block: analytics.google.com (2020-03-04 17:12 GMT+8)

Feb

1. Dropped connection from China due to DDoS attack recently, China user pls use doh1.blahdns.com and doh2.blahdns.com instead.

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Year 2019

Nov

1. Switzerland server is shutdown
2. Finland server is up and running

September

1. Japan IPv6, not reachable, has been fixed. (Sep, 15)
2. Switzerland, IPv6 down for 3 minutes. (Sep, 18)
3. Germany DNS server currently having an IPv6 problem, pls be patient.--- FIXED (09-21, 16:31 GMT+8)

July

1. Fixed Intra DoH getting some error, miss blocked dns.google.com domain cause this error message (Fix on July 3, 2019)

April

1. Germany server has been reinstalled and uses the new solution to provide better and faster service, enjoy (April 16, 2019)

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Expired

• Japan DoH, DoT address has been migrated to
  • DoH: doh-jp.blahdns.com
  • DoT: dot-jp.blahdns.com
    (old domain doh.blahdns.com & dns.jp.blahdns.com will shut down on March 31, 2019)
• Japan Ipv6 problem fixed. 2019-02-17 (Vps provider suddenly added an IPv6, so I have 2 IPv6. But the knot-resolver was set to listen [::] automatically. I manually listen to both of them, everything works fine again. Sorry for the inconvenience.
• Server in Germany currently highly unstable, I will try to fix it ASAP. Thanks (Problem solved, still have to monitor it)
• IMPORTANT - PORT 53 will shut down soon, be sure you use DoT, DoH, DNSCryptv2.
• Old Germany server IP 217.61.0.97 will shut down on October 30, 2018
• Blahdns Germany Server Migration announcement, Start: October 28, 2018, 8:00:00 AM CEST, follow this issue

[zoonderkins]

Pls open new issue.
Thanks