ERISED - Only see what you want to see

Adblocking using DNS-over-TLS

This is a project with the goal of blocking unwanted ads, trackers, etc across an entire operating system (web and apps). Currently focusing on Android since that's the only major OS with a native DNS-over-TLS implementation.

This group of containers will accept incoming DNS-over-TLS (DoT) requests, pass them through the Pi-hole blocker, and then pass them upstream to an encrypted DNS server.

Note:
This currently deploys the Caddy container using a Caddy install using a Personal License. 
Make sure to change this if you require the commerical license.

Prerequsistes

Before deploying this you'll need to:

• install Docker
• install Docker Compose
• Get a DNS A or AAAA record pointing to your server's IP
• Open port 853 and 80 on your firewall (80 to get a certificate, and 853 for the actual service)

Deploying

Once you have all this, clone this repo

git clone https://github.com/eldridgea/erised.git

Change into the cloned directory and run the build command replacing "YOUR_HOSTNAME" with your hostname and "YOUR_EMAIL" with your email.

cd erised

docker-compose build --build-arg ERISEDHOST=YOUR_HOSTNAME --build-arg ERISEDEMAIL=YOUR_EMAIL

Once this is done run

docker-compose up -d

(Or run docker-compose up if you want logging output to your terminal)

Details

This will deploy a stack of three containers:

• cloudflared - to encrypt DNS queries before passing them upstream
• PiHole - to filter out unwanted results
• Caddy - to allow incoming DNS requests to use TLS

A DNS request will look like this:

    ---------
    |Your   |
    |Device |
    |       |
    ---------
        |
        |
        |
        |
    ---------
    |       |
    |Caddy  |
    |       |
    ---------
        |
        |
        |
        |
    ---------
    |       |
    |pihole |
    |       |
    ---------   
        |
        |
        |
        |
    ---------------
    |             |
    | cloudflared |
    |             |
    ---------------
        |
        |
        |
        |
    -------------------
    |                 |
    | Cloudflare's    |
    | 1.1.1.1 service |
    -------------------

Using on Android 9.0 +

DNS-over-TLS is a built in feature on Android 9 (Pie) and later. If used, Android will use that DNS server for all requests on all networks. So this allows for system-wide blocking on all apps and all networks without the need for an always-on VPN.

To use this, open up your Android settings > Network & Internet > Advanced > Private DNS.

Select the "Private DNS provider hostname" option and enter in your hostname that you used for your DNS record and in the build command.