1) Modify the [`dnscrypt-proxy.toml`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/master/dnscrypt-proxy/dnscrypt-proxy.toml) configuration file according to your needs.
2) Make sure that nothing else is already listening to port 53 on your system and run (in a console with elevated privileges on Windows) the `dnscrypt-proxy` application. Change your DNS settings to the configured IP address and check that everything works as expected. A DNS query for `resolver.00f.net` should return one of the chosen DNS servers instead of your ISP's resolver.
The current 2.0.0 alpha version includes all the major features from dnscrypt-proxy 1.9.5 (support for dnscrypt v2, synthetic IPv6 responses, logging, blocking, forwarding and caching), with improved reliability, flexbility, usability and performance.
| DNS caching | Yes, with ugly hacks for DNSSEC support | Yes, without ugly hacks |
| EDNS support | Broken with custom records | Yes |
| Asynchronous filters | Lol, no, filters block everything | Of course, thanks to Go |
| Session-local storage for extensions | Impossible | Yes |
| Multicore support | Nonexistent | Yes, thanks to Go |
| Efficient padding of queries | Couldn't be any worse | Yes |
| Multiple local sockets | Impossible | Of course. IPv4, IPv6, as many as you like |
| Automatically picks the fastest servers | Lol, it supports only one at a time, anyway | Yes, out of the box |
| Official, always up-to-date pre-built libraries | None | Yes, for many platforms. See below. |
| Automatically downloads and verifies servers lists | No. Requires custom scripts, cron jobs and dependencies (minisign) | Yes, built-in, including signature verification |
| Advanced expressions in blacklists (ads*.example[0-9]*.com) | No | Yes |
| Forwarding with load balancing | No | Yes |
| Built-in system installer | Only on Windows | Install/uninstall/start/stop/restart as a service on Windows, Linux/(systemd,Upstart,SysV), and macOS/launchd |
