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# systemd-resolved additional config files
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- [Quickstart](#quickstart)
- [Files explained](#files-explained)
- [General commentary](#general-commentary)
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## Quickstart
```bash
sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-resolved.service
sudo ln -rsf /run/systemd/resolve/stub-resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
# After changing configuration
sudo systemctl restart systemd-resolved
```
## Files explained
- `00-defaults.conf` - configuration that should be used everywhere.
Enables DNSSEC (regardless of systemd-resolved not handling it properly),
enables opportunistic DoT, caching and local DNS servers.
- `dot-*.conf` - configuration to use the DNS provider with DNS-over-TLS. If
captive portals are a concern, `DNSOverTLS=opportunistic`. At least one of these
should be used in addition to `00-defaults.conf`
- `nordvpn.conf` - includes NordVPN's resolver addresses for hosts using it
- `README.md` - you are reading it right now.
## General commentary
- DNSOverTLS became supported in systemd v239, strict mode (true) in
v243 (big improvements in v244).
- TODO: find out when SNI became supported, I have just spotted it in the
fine manual in 2020-06-??.
- Domains has to be `.~` for them to override DHCP. See https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2018/12/dns-privacy-in-linux-systemd
without which I wouldn't have got this right.
- DNSSEC may not work if the system is down for a long time and not updated.
Thus `allow-downgrade` may be better for non-tech people, even with the
potential downgrade attack. There are also captive portals, affecting
`DNSOverTLS`. Both take `true` or `false` or their own special option,
for DNSSEC the `allow-downgrade`, for DNSOverTLS `opportunistic`.
- Then again when was any system that outdated to not have working DNSSEC?
- TODO: return to this configuration should that actually happen?
- I am actually running Unbound simultaneously with `resolv.conf` pointing
to both with `options rotate edns0 trust-ad` which might workaround that
potential issue.
Other links I have found important and my files are based on:
- https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd-resolved
- Also provides the serious issues systemd-resolved+DNSSEC issues, https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/10579 & https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9867
- request for strict DoT: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/10755
- vulnerable to MITM: https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/9397