Setting up dnscrypt-proxy on Windows

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Okay, this is just a quick and dirty write-up. The biggest problem with dnscrypt-proxy is that it only provides you with a single DNS server at a time. Using this method you can have as many servers as you want.

Okay, so to start with get the LATEST-win64-full.zip file from here

1. d0wn-au-ns1
2. d0wn-id-ns1
3. d0wn-sg-ns1
4. d0wn-sg-ns2
5. d0wn-hk-ns1

Now edit your Install.bat file in notepad and paste in this:

@echo off
dnscrypt-proxy.exe -R d0wn-au-ns1 -a 127.0.0.1:53 --install --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy.exe -R d0wn-id-ns1 -a 127.0.0.2:53 --install --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-2nd
dnscrypt-proxy.exe -R d0wn-sg-ns1 -a 127.0.0.3:53 --install --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-3rd
dnscrypt-proxy.exe -R d0wn-sg-ns2 -a 127.0.0.4:53 --install --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-4th
dnscrypt-proxy.exe -R d0wn-hk-ns1 -a 127.0.0.5:53 --install --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-5th

Change each server name to the servers you want to use and save the file. In your Uninstall.bat file just paste this:

@echo off
dnscrypt-proxy.exe --uninstall --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy
dnscrypt-proxy.exe --uninstall --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-2nd
dnscrypt-proxy.exe --uninstall --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-3rd
dnscrypt-proxy.exe --uninstall --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-4th
dnscrypt-proxy.exe --uninstall --service-name=dnscrypt-proxy-5th

Okay, now you have two files that can Install and Uninstall the services to run dnscrypt-proxy. Since they make system changes, they need to be run from an elevated command prompt

1. Right-click on the Network Adapter and select "Properties".
2. Scroll down to Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6), and deselect it.
3. Scroll down to Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4), select it and click Properties.
4. Select "Use the following DNS server addresses" and enter 127.0.0.1 and 127.0.0.2.
5. Click Advanced then DNS and then add each of your additional servers 127.0.0.3, 127.0.0.4, and 127.0.0.5.
6. Click OK then OK then Close.

That's it. To uninstall later you need to first go into your adapter settings and select "Obtain DNS sever address automatically" (at step 4 above) then close out of the adapter settings, and then you can uninstall the dnscrypt-proxy services using the uninstall file you made earlier run from an elevated command prompt.

If you ever want to change servers, you don't need to uninstall first - just open up your install.bat file in notepad and change the server names to whatever you want, and run it from an elevated command prompt. This is necessary if the servers are removed in a future release - whenever you update dnscrypt-proxy always check your selected dns servers - if they've been removed from the csv file you can no longer use them.