This website is built using Docusaurus 2, a modern static website generator.

main branch is published automatically to https://adguardteam.github.io/KnowledgeBaseDNS/.

You can help by contributing to the Knowledge Base, all details are in this article.

First of all, you need to install the following:

• git
• yarn

Second, clone this repo to your local computer:

• git clone git@github.com:AdguardTeam/KnowledgeBaseDNS.git

Alternatively, you can use the Github app to do that.

Then you should open Terminal on your computer and navigate to the directory where you cloned this repo and run this command to install the local dependencies:

• yarn install

• yarn start

This command starts a local development server and opens up a browser window. Most changes are reflected live without having to restart the server.

• yarn build

This command generates static content into the build directory and can be served using any static contents hosting service.

Translations are not pushed to the repo and prepared on-the-fly (i18n folder is added to .gitignore).

Here's how you can debug translations locally.

1. Download translations: CROWDIN_PERSONAL_TOKEN="YOURTOKEN" yarn run crowdin download
2. Run Docusaurus with the language of your choice: yarn run start -- --locale de

If you'd like to update the list of known DNS Providers, you'll need to know how to create and check DNS stamps. Read the brief tutorial below to learn how to do it.

1. Go to Online DNS Stamp calculator
2. Choose DNS-over-HTTPS from the drop-down menu
3. Fill out the Host name and Path fields of the form
4. Copy the ready DNS stamp from the Stamp field

1. Go to Online DNS Stamp calculator
2. Choose DNS-over-TLS from the drop-down menu
3. Fill out the Host name field 
4. Copy the ready DNS stamp from the Stamp field

1. Go to Online DNS Stamp calculator
2. Choose DNS-over-QUIC from the drop-down menu
3. Fill out the Host name field
4. Copy the ready DNS stamp from the Stamp field

1. Go to Online DNS Stamp calculator
2. Choose Plain DNS from the drop-down menu
3. Fill out the IP address field
4. Copy the ready DNS stamp from the Stamp field

1. Install dnslookup using Homebrew or from source
2. Run a command. Examples of commands for different protocols are given on this page