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Using DNS
Every cryptic-net daemon process ships with a DNS server which runs
automatically. This server will listen on port 53 on the VPN IP of that
particular host.
The server will serve requests for <hostname>.hosts.<domain> hostnames,
where <hostname> is the name of any host in the network, and <domain> is the
network's domain name.
If a request for a hostname not within the network's domain is received then the server will forward the request to a pre-configured public resolver. The set of public resolvers used can be configured using the daemon.yml file.
This DNS server is an optional feature of cryptic-net, and not required in general for making use of the network.
Example
As an example of how to make use of this DNS server, let's say my host's IP on
the network is 10.10.1.1, and my network's domain is cool.internal.
In order to configure the host to use the cryptic-net DNS server for all DNS
requests, I could do something like this:
sudo su
echo "nameserver 10.10.1.1" > /etc/resolv.conf
From that point, all DNS requests on my host would hit the cryptic-net DNS
server. If I request my-host.hosts.cool.internal, it would respond with the
appropriate private IP.
NOTE that configuration of dns resolvers is very OS-specific, even amongst Linux distributions, so ensure you know how your resolver configuration works before doing this.