How to Protect Your DNS Privacy on Ubuntu 18.04 with DNS over TLS

LinuxBabe
1 min readJun 16, 2018

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This tutorial will be showing you how to protect your DNS privacy on Ubuntu 18.04 desktop with DNS over TLS. We will use a tool called stubby to achieve that. But first, let me tell you why DNS is not secure.

DNS Vulnerability

DNS is insecure because by default DNS queries are not encrypted, which can be exploited by middle entities. DNS cache poison is one of the DNS abuses that is widely used by the Great Firewall of China to censor Chinese Internet.

Real full tutorial here: https://www.linuxbabe.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-stubby-dns-over-tls

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