How to Install SmartDNS on Debian Latest

SmartDNS is a DNS forwarder that supports DoH, DoT, and DNSCrypt. It can be useful for improving your privacy and security while browsing the web. If you want to use SmartDNS on Debian, here's how you install it.

Prerequisites

Before installing SmartDNS on Debian, you need to have:

• A Debian Latest installation
• Root access to your system or a user with sudo privileges.

Step 1: Install dependencies

First, update the system's package index and install the required dependencies:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y gcc make libuv1-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libudns-dev libmbedtls-dev libsodium-dev

Step 2: Download SmartDNS

Download SmartDNS from GitHub using the wget command:

wget https://github.com/pymumu/smartdns/archive/master.tar.gz

This will download the SmartDNS archive to your current directory.

Step 3: Extract the SmartDNS archive

Use the tar command to extract the SmartDNS archive:

tar -zxvf master.tar.gz

This will create a directory called smartdns-master containing the SmartDNS source code.

Step 4: Compile and install SmartDNS

Change into the smartdns-master directory and run the following commands to compile and install SmartDNS:

cd smartdns-master
./configure --enable-ipv6
make
sudo make install

This will configure, compile, and install SmartDNS on your system.

Step 5: Configure SmartDNS

Once SmartDNS is installed, you can configure it by creating a smartdns.conf file in the /usr/local/etc/ directory:

sudo nano /usr/local/etc/smartdns.conf

In this file, you can configure the SmartDNS options. Here's an example configuration:

server {
    label: "mydns"
    nameserver 8.8.8.8
    nameserver 8.8.4.4
}

This creates a server configuration named mydns and uses Google's DNS servers as the nameservers. You can customize this configuration to suit your needs.

Step 6: Start the SmartDNS service

With SmartDNS installed and configured, you can start the service by running the following command:

sudo systemctl start smartdns.service

To make sure that SmartDNS starts on boot, enable the service using the following command:

sudo systemctl enable smartdns.service

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we covered the steps to install and configure SmartDNS on Debian Latest. With SmartDNS, you can improve your privacy and security while browsing the web.

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