DownloadAcrylic is a local DNS proxy for Windows which improves the performance of your computer by caching the responses coming from your DNS servers and helps you fight unwanted ads through the use of a custom HOSTS file (optimized for handling hundreds of thousands of domain names) with support for wildcards and regular expressions.
When you browse a web page a portion of the loading time is dedicated to name resolution while the rest is dedicated to the transfer of the web page contents. What Acrylic does is to reduce the time dedicated to name resolution for frequently visited addresses closest to zero possible. Furthermore Acrylic's sliding expiration caching mechanism and DNS silent updates are able to improve the browsing experience independently of the browser.
With Acrylic you can also gracefully overcome downtimes of your DNS servers without disrupting your work, because in that case you will at least be able to connect to your favourite websites and to your email server.
Features
- DNS caching
- Custom HOSTS file with support for wildcards and regular expressions
- Support for DNS-over-HTTPS
- Support for SOCKS 5 proxies
Project Samples
License
GNU General Public License version 2.0 (GPLv2)Follow Acrylic DNS Proxy
User Reviews
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Acrylic v2.1.1 Thank you very much, Mr. Developer! This tool is so much helpful, and could not be much better. But i am not sure, if the cache works?
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👍For me works superb, compliments to author of this project!👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋👋 🌍Use WindowsNT specially function block hosts if you have active for example: @ AcrylicHostsGroup1.txt @ AcrylicHostsGroup2.txt 🧱️AutoBlock malicious hosts work superb, do not forget make ShellScript to autorestart AcrylicDNS if your have external auto post block malware hosts! example file: AcrylicHostsGroup2.txt 0.0.0.0 cutt.us 0.0.0.0 trojan.fan 0.0.0.0 shawer.live 0.0.0.0 air05frp.club 0.0.0.0 webyo.co.uk 0.0.0.0 maloola.club 0.0.0.0 rust.cafe 0.0.0.0 app.link 0.0.0.0 ithaii.xyz 0.0.0.0 tfw.wales 0.0.0.0 webometrics.info 0.0.0.0 shawer.live 0.0.0.0 ton01dk.club etc. etc. etc............. 💯💯💯👍💻
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Google DoH does not work on Windows 8.1 and Windows 7. Windows 10 Google DoH works ok. 2020-02-03 17:36:02.376 [E] TDnsOverHttpsDnsForwarder.Execute: TDnsOverHttpsClientCommunicationChannel.SendToAndReceiveFrom: WinInet.HttpSendRequest failed with error code 12029. Event 36887 (Error): A fatal alert was received from the remote endpoint. The TLS protocol defined fatal alert code is 70. Cloudflare DoH and Quad9 DoH works ok on Windows 8.1, Windows 7 and Windows 10 . Thanks!
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Good Project
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Is there no way of setting up DNS aliases? I created an entry "127.0.0.1 yahoo.com yahoo". Then when I "ping yahoo.com", I successfully get a reply from localhost, but when I "ping yahoo", I get nothing.