SmartDNS for DNS-Alternative

SmartDNS is a local DNS server with dashboard. SmartDNS accepts DNS query requests from local clients, obtains DNS query results from multiple upstream DNS servers, and returns the fastest access results to clients. supports secure DNS protocols like DoT (DNS over TLS), DoH (DNS over HTTPS), better protect privacy, Avoiding DNS pollution and improving network access speed, supports high-performance ad filtering.

Unlike dnsmasq's all-servers, smartdns returns the fastest ip.

SmartDNS is provided with a set of configuration files to work with DNS-Alternative.  SmartDNS is supposed to work out of the box. To make SmartDNS the DNS-Alternative exclusive resolver dnscrypt-proxy service must be stopped.

systemctl stop dnscrypt-proxy