DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3)

Note

This guide is about DNS over HTTP/3. For DNS over HTTP/1 and DNS over HTTP/2, please see DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)

dnsdist supports DNS-over-HTTP/3 (DoH3) for incoming queries since 1.9.0. To see if the installation supports this, run dnsdist --version. If the output shows dns-over-http3 incoming DNS-over-HTTP/3 is supported.

Incoming

Adding a listen port for DNS-over-HTTP/3 can be done with the addDOH3Local() function, e.g.:

addDOH3Local('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key')

This will make dnsdist listen on [2001:db8:1:f00::1]:443 on UDP, and will use the provided certificate and key to serve incoming DoH3 connections.

The fourth parameter, if present, indicates various options. For instance, you can change the congestion control algorithm used. An example is:

addDOH3Local('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key', {congestionControlAlgo="bbr"})

A particular attention should be taken to the permissions of the certificate and key files. Many ACME clients used to get and renew certificates, like CertBot, set permissions assuming that services are started as root, which is no longer true for dnsdist as of 1.5.0. For that particular case, making a copy of the necessary files in the /etc/dnsdist directory is advised, using for example CertBot’s --deploy-hook feature to copy the files with the right permissions after a renewal.

More information about sessions management can also be found in TLS Sessions Management.

Advertising DNS over HTTP/3 support

If DNS over HTTP/2 is also enabled in the configuration via addDOHLocal() (see DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) for more information), it might be useful to advertise DNS over HTTP/3 support via the Alt-Svc header:

addDOHLocal('2001:db8:1:f00::1', '/etc/ssl/certs/example.com.pem', '/etc/ssl/private/example.com.key', "/dns", {customResponseHeaders={["alt-svc"]="h3=\":443\""}})

This will advertise that HTTP/3 is available on the same IP, port UDP/443.