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Re:Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go by vemv on Friday September 16, 2016 @03:01PM (#12516444)
What problem does this project solve?

It's not immediately obvious what the thing does from the description.

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Re:Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go by dexterdog on Friday September 16, 2016 @05:18PM (#12517429)
When you are out and about with your laptop you are usually making your DNS calls to the local router which many view as a big privacy concern. Even if you use something like google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 public DNS servers as your defaults the traffic is easily sniffable.
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Re:Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go by icebraining on Friday September 16, 2016 @10:13PM (#12518756)
When you connect to any site, your browser sends the domain in clear-text (even for HTTPS - see SNI). The only way to avoid this is to use a VPN, but then you can route regular DNS over that too.
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Re:Show HN: dingo - a Google DNS-over-HTTPS caching proxy in Go by sciurus on Friday September 16, 2016 @04:09PM (#12516969)
The description sounds pretty clear to me.

"A caching DNS proxy for the Google DNS-over-HTTPS. It effectively encrypts all your DNS traffic."

https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/dns-over...

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