DNS Changer 🚀

Simple, powerful, one-click DNS server changer app made for Linux!
A lightweight desktop application to quickly switch between DNS servers (NextDNS, Cloudflare, Google, etc.) with real-time ping testing.

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📑 Table of Contents

• 📌 Features
• ❓ Why use dns changer
• 💾 Installation
• 🚀 Usage
• 🛡️ Privacy
• 🦠 Antivirus Result
• 📦 Releases

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📌 Features

• Change DNS settings with a single command
• Built-in & custom DNS provider widgets for easy selection and management
• Modular UI components (widgets.py, panels/) for a clean, extensible interface
• Backup and restore DNS configurations
• Lightweight, fast, and Linux-only

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❓ Why use DNS Changer?

This app is simple and easy to use—just one click to change your DNS server.
It offers built-in ad-blocking and filtering, reduces ping for faster responses, and is designed with a privacy-focused mindset.

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💾 Installation

1. Download the pre-built binary (recommended)

   curl -L -o dns-changer https://github.com/kun-create/dns-changer/releases/latest/download/dns-changer
   chmod +x dns-changer
   ./dns-changer```
   

2. Or build from source with Nuitka

   python -m nuitka \
     --onefile \
     --follow-imports \
     --enable-plugin=tk-inter \
     --include-package=tksvg \
     --include-package=tkfontawesome \
     --include-package-data=tksvg \
     --include-package-data=tkfontawesome \
     --include-data-files=./logo/logo40.png=./logo/logo40.png \
     --include-data-files=./data/dns_configs.json=./data/dns_configs.json \
     --include-data-files=./data/promo_nextdns.json=./data/promo_nextdns.json \
     --linux-icon=./logo/logo40.png \
     --company-name='Kun Create' \
     --product-name='DNS Changer' \
     --file-description='GUI tool to switch DNS on Linux' \
     --file-version=1.0.0 \
     --product-version=1.0.0 \
     --assume-yes-for-downloads \
     --lto=yes \
     --static-libpython=auto \
     --remove-output \
     --output-filename=dns-changer \
     main.py

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🚀 Usage

./dns-changer

1. Select a provider via the DNS provider widgets on the main tab
2. Click Connect to apply your choice
3. Use the Backup/Restore panel to manage snapshots of your DNS configuration

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🛡️ Privacy

DNS Changer operates 100 % locally:

• No telemetry, user-tracking or analytics
• DNS profiles are stored under ~/.config/dns-changer in plain JSON
• Network changes are applied with standard Linux resolv.conf methods and never sent to external servers Your data never leaves your machine.

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🦠 Antivirus Result

The latest release binary was scanned at VirusTotal and reported 0 detections. 🔗 View full scan report

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📦 Releases

We strongly recommend using the pre-built dns-changer binary for the fastest setup:

chmod +x dns-changer
./dns-changer

Grab it from the Releases page.

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