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name: Deploy mdBook site to Pages

on:
# Runs on pushes targeting the default branch
push:
branches: ["master"]

# Allows you to run this workflow manually from the Actions tab
workflow_dispatch:

# Sets permissions of the GITHUB_TOKEN to allow deployment to GitHub Pages
permissions:
contents: read
pages: write
id-token: write

# Allow only one concurrent deployment, skipping runs queued between the run in-progress and latest queued.
# However, do NOT cancel in-progress runs as we want to allow these production deployments to complete.
concurrency:
group: "pages"
cancel-in-progress: false

jobs:
# Build job
build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
env:
MDBOOK_VERSION: 0.4.21
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- name: Install mdBook
run: |
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf -y | sh
rustup update
cargo install --version ${MDBOOK_VERSION} mdbook
- name: Setup Pages
id: pages
uses: actions/configure-pages@v3
- name: Build with mdBook
run: mdbook build doc
- name: Upload artifact
uses: actions/upload-pages-artifact@v2
with:
path: ./doc/book

# Deployment job
deploy:
environment:
name: github-pages
url: ${{ steps.deployment.outputs.page_url }}
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
needs: build
steps:
- name: Deploy to GitHub Pages
id: deployment
uses: actions/deploy-pages@v2
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book
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[book]
authors = ["Cottand"]
language = "en"
multilingual = false
src = "src"
title = "leng-doc"
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There are many blocklist resources online, and by default leng is configured to use some of the more popular ones from around the internet for blocking ads and malware domains. Some services exist that will allow you to regularly get blocklist updates automatically from feeds.

## Blocklists

[https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/](https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/)
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Leng implements following CNAME records as specified in [RFC-1034 section 3.6.2](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1034#section-3.6.2), where it returns all necessary CNAME and A records to fully resolve the query (as opposed to just returning a synthetic A record, which is known as [CNAME flattening](https://developers.cloudflare.com/dns/cname-flattening/cname-flattening-diagram/)).

> ⚠ This is the behaviour of most if not all DNS servers - Leng is only special in this in that it has to deal with cuustom DNS records, the resolvers it proxies, and blocklists. **You should not need to change its default behaviour**, but this page aims to leave it well-documented.
## `dig` request example

```bash
$> dig first.example

; <<>> DiG 9.18.19 <<>> first.example
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;first.example. IN A
;; ANSWER SECTION:
first.example. 300 IN CNAME second.example.
second.example. 300 IN CNAME third.example.
third.example. 300 IN A 139.201.133.245
```
## Behaviour
The resolving for the downstream CNAME records is done with the same question type as the original question. That is, if you ask `AAAA some-cname.com`, the following CNAME queries will be `AAAA` questions too.
### Custom records
If you have set up your own custom records, those can also be part of the CNAME chain.
This makes it easy to alias custom records to external domains:
```
customdnsrecords = [
"login.vpn IN CNAME this.very.long.other.domain.login.login.my-company.xyz"
]
```
Querying `login.vpn` will also return the A record corresponding to `this.very.long.other.domain.login.login.my-company.xyz`.
### Blocking
If any of the domains involved in the CNAME-following is part of a blocklist (that is, it would get blocked if it corresponded to an `A` response, rather than `CNAME`) then the entire request blocked (_unless_ the domain is part of the custom DNS defined in the config)
For the example where we have
```
first.example IN CNAME second.example
second.example IN CNAME third.example
third.example IN A 10.0.0.0
```
if any of `first.example`, `second.example` or `third.example` appear in a blocklist, the request for `first.example` will fail.
## Configuration
CNAME-following is enabled by default, but you can disabled with the following:
```toml
# leng.toml
followCnameDepth = 0
```
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If leng.toml is not found the default configuration will be used. If it is found, fields that are set will act as overrides.

Here is the default configuration:

```toml
# list of sources to pull blocklists from, stores them in ./sources
sources = [
"https://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/files/justdomains",
"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts",
"https://sysctl.org/cameleon/hosts",
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_tracking.txt",
"https://s3.amazonaws.com/lists.disconnect.me/simple_ad.txt",
"https://gitlab.com/quidsup/notrack-blocklists/raw/master/notrack-blocklist.txt"
]

# list of locations to recursively read blocklists from (warning, every file found is assumed to be a hosts-file or domain list)
sourcedirs = [
"sources"
]

# log configuration
# format: comma separated list of options, where options is one of
# file:<filename>@<loglevel>
# stderr>@<loglevel>
# syslog@<loglevel>
# loglevel: 0 = errors and important operations, 1 = dns queries, 2 = debug
# e.g. logconfig = "file:leng.log@2,syslog@1,stderr@2"
logconfig = "stderr@2"

# apidebug enables the debug mode of the http api library
apidebug = false

# address to bind to for the DNS server
bind = "0.0.0.0:53"

# address to bind to for the API server
api = "127.0.0.1:8080"

# response to blocked queries with a NXDOMAIN
nxdomain = false

# ipv4 address to forward blocked queries to
nullroute = "0.0.0.0"

# ipv6 address to forward blocked queries to
nullroutev6 = "0:0:0:0:0:0:0:0"

# nameservers to forward queries to
nameservers = ["1.1.1.1:53", "1.0.0.1:53"]

# concurrency interval for lookups in miliseconds
interval = 200

# query timeout for dns lookups in seconds
timeout = 5

# cache entry lifespan in seconds
expire = 600

# cache capacity, 0 for infinite
maxcount = 0

# question cache capacity, 0 for infinite but not recommended (this is used for storing logs)
questioncachecap = 5000

# manual blocklist entries
blocklist = []

# Drbl related settings
usedrbl = 0
drblpeersfilename = "drblpeers.yaml"
drblblockweight = 128
drbltimeout = 30
drbldebug = 0

# manual whitelist entries - comments for reference
whitelist = [
# "getsentry.com",
# "www.getsentry.com"
]

# manual custom dns entries - comments for reference
customdnsrecords = [
# "example.mywebsite.tld IN A 10.0.0.1"
# "example.other.tld IN CNAME wikipedia.org"
]

# When this string is queried, toggle leng on and off
togglename = ""

# If not zero, the delay in seconds before leng automaticall reactivates after
# having been turned off.
reactivationdelay = 300

#Dns over HTTPS provider to use.
DoH = "https://cloudflare-dns.com/dns-query"

# Prometheus metrics - enable
[Metrics]
enabled = false
path = "/metrics"
```

The most up-to-date version can be found on [config.go](https://github.com/Cottand/leng/blob/master/config.go)
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You can make leng return records of your choosing (which will take precedence over upstream DNS records) by setting `customdnsrecords` in the [[Configuration]].

Custom DNS records are represented as [Resource Record](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System#Resource_records) strings. Class defaults to IN and TTL defaults to 3600. Full zone file syntax is supported.

```toml
customdnsrecords = [
"example.com. 3600 IN A 10.10.0.1",
"example.cname.com. IN CNAME wikipedia.org",
]
```
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# DNS-over-HTTP(S), aka DoH

Leng supports DNS-over-HTTPS as per [RFC-8484](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8484), although it is disabled by default.

Custom DNS records will be served over DoH the same as normal DNS requests.

You can specify your key files yourself to have leng serve HTTPS traffic, or you can let leng serve HTTP traffic and have a proxy manage the HTTPS certificates.

### Specifying Key files (HTTP)

```toml
[DnsOverHttpServer]
enabled = true
bind = "0.0.0.0:80"
timeoutMs = 5000

[DnsOverHttpServer.TLS]
enabled = true
certPath = ""
keyPath = ""
# if empty, system CAs will be used
caPath = ""
```

### Not specifying key files (TLS disabled, HTTP traffic from leng)
```toml
[DnsOverHttpServer]
enabled = true
bind = "0.0.0.0:80"
timeoutMs = 5000
```

> ⚠ It is not recommended to use HTTP without TLS at all directly. Your queries will be un-encrypted, so they won't be much different than normal UDP queries.
You can use DoH [in most browsers](https://ghacks.net/2021/10/23/how-to-enable-dns-over-https-secure-dns-in-chrome-brave-edge-firefox-and-other-browsers/).
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# Deploying on Debian

## Installing leng

Installing leng is the easiest when you simply download a release from the [releases](https://github.com/looterz/leng/releases) page. Go ahead and copy the link for leng_linux_x64 and run the following in your terminal.

```
mkdir ~/grim
cd ~/grim
wget <leng release>
```

This will download the binary to ```~/grim``` which will be leng's working directory. First, lets setup file permissions for leng, by running the following.

```
chmod a+x ./leng_linux_x64
```

Setup is pretty much complete, the only thing left to do is run leng and let it generate the default configuration and download the blocklists, but lets set it up as a systemd service so it automatically restarts and updates when starting.

## Setting up the service

Create the leng service by running the following,

```
nano /etc/systemd/system/leng.service
```

Now paste in the code for the service below,

```
[Unit]
Description=leng dns proxy
Documentation=https://github.com/looterz/leng
After=network.target
[Service]
User=root
WorkingDirectory=/root/grim
LimitNOFILE=4096
PIDFile=/var/run/leng/leng.pid
ExecStart=/root/grim/leng_linux_x64 -update
Restart=always
StartLimitInterval=30
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
```

Save, and now you can start, stop, restart and run status commands on the leng service like follows
```
systemctl start leng # start
systemctl enable leng # start on boot
```

The only thing left to do is setup your clients to use your leng dns server.

## Security

Now that leng is setup on your droplet, it's recommended to [secure](https://github.com/looterz/leng/wiki/Securing-on-linux) the installation from non-whitelisted clients.
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Here are some useful guides and resources for working with leng. Contributions welcome!
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