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Overkilling Privacy Protection with ExpressVPN and VirtualBox on a Hackintosh

Posted on January 6, 2020 | Batista Harahap

I live in Indonesia. Here, ISP and telcos likes to do the absurd: hijacking DNS queries. Public DNS services like Google (8.8.8.8), Cloudflare (1.1.1.1), OpenDNS (208.67.222.222), etc are hijacked at the ISP level. Even more so, if you’re on Telkom Indihome, they will also hijack websites you visit with their content. All the other telcos are doing the same thing for our paid data plans. So I thought why not overkill this, I got plenty of RAM, CPU Cores and storage on my Hackintosh. [Read More]

Easy DNS Names for Virtual Hosts in Mac OS X

Posted on April 28, 2012 | Batista Harahap

I got tired of manually inserting lines into my /etc/hosts file and decided to look for other solutions. The DD-WRT router has a DNSMAsq feature in which I list domains that are supposed to be internal domains to be resolved to its local IP. I still have to insert lines but now it’s more organized and better than seeing mumbo jumbo in your hosts file.

Here are my steps: [gist]

	# If you don't have Homebrew installed, you should. Do this.
	/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(/usr/bin/curl -fksSL https://raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/master/Library/Contributions/install_homebrew.rb)"

	# Install DNSMasq from Homebrew
	brew install dnsmasq

	# Create a directory for virtual hosts files
	mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d

	# Create a config for DNSMasq
	vim /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

	# Insert the following settings
	server=8.8.8.8 # Public upstream DNS server 1 for non-local domains - Google
	server=208.67.222.222 # Public upstream DNS server 2 for non-local domains - OpenDNS
	server=208.67.220.220 # Public upstream DNS server 3 for non-local domains - OpenDNS
	conf-dir=/usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.d # Put virtual hosts in a separate file/directory structure

	# Start DNSMasq at bootup
	sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/dnsmasq/2.60/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist /Library/LaunchDaemons
	sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.dnsmasq.plist

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