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DNS not working after switching to VPN and back? (Home network)
I have a raspberry pi, hostname raspberrypi, on my home network that I can usually connect to just fine - I didn't have to set anything up, it just worked after it was plugged in, presumably using my ...
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Connecting to WireGuard no Internet Access
I'm using an old laptop as a Home server and I wanted to set up a VPN (Wireguard & DuckDNS using PiVPN) following this guide: https://chriskalos.notion.site/The-0-Home-Server-Written-Guide-...
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AdguardHome DNS not working for Wireguard VPN clients on OpnSense
For my home network I have a x86 System running OpnSense. I use Wireguard to connect external devices with my network (set up according to the official documentation).
This setup worked fine until I ...
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Win11: Manual DNS settings in VPN does not apply
I would like to connect to a VPN and manually configure DNS settings in Win11:
I've disabled ipv6, and manually set DNS server addresses.
However, when I executed nslookup in CMD, I got
Default ...
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How to use sshuttle to redirect traffic to a VPN?
Context
I have a pfSense as a router/firewall, and relevant to this question, I have two connected computers, one laptop and one desktop. I use the laptop to connect to a VPN in order to access some ...
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Wireguard queries showing up in PiHole, but no return packets are recieved by the client
I've got a docker bridge network with Wireguard and PiHole containers running within. I've forwarded all necessary ports, and using 192.168.1.208 (My server ip) as my DNS in the router works great on ...
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Troubleshooting problems with Viscosity and DNS requests
I'm using Viscosity 1.10.8 on macOS 14.2.1. A friend of mine has just sent to me the following OpenVPN configuration file for my client:
client
dev tun
remote <MY FRIEND'S IP> 1194 tcp
tun-mtu ...
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Overriding VPN configuration to access external websites
I'm going to break down the problem into sections to make it easier to understand.
The Problem
I work for a client which requires us to use an Ivanti VPN in order to access their servers and internal ...
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Unknown entry in Hosts file (Windows) for geoip.pango-paas.co
I was going to add an entry in Hosts file to make it easy to connect with a server. But when I opened the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts , I saw an entry for (changed the real ip to xx below):
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VPN with Ubuntu using local DC as DNS server with Homelab?
I have a homelab that has various servers, and inside the home network there is a domain control that also acts as a DNS server. This home network does not have a static IP. I have a ubuntu VM in the ...
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Disable VPN DNS server and take over with dnsmasq
I have a local network setup using dnsmasq as my DNS server. I assigned domain *.home to my local devices, so I make it more user-friendly for other house members. I have following entry in my dnsmasq ...
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How to test DNS (or other parts) for overall internet speed slowness?
I'm forced to use this somewhat unknown vpn called LetsVPN to access my favorite sites in China. However, I noticed my speed dropping from 300+ Mbps (without the vpn) to around 10 Mbps consistently.
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Wireguard + FIOS - no internet access
After a few reboots my home setup of Wireguard stopped accessing internet. I can do handshake from outside the network and I can access the intranet - but it won't allow me to go to the web via ...
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Windows 11 DNS resolution not working with any VPN service
I have a Lenovo laptop with Windows 11 installed. Wifi and ethernet work fine but from some time I am not able to use any VPN service anymore, I use Forti VPN and Keepsoft VPN unlimited services. When ...
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Strange DNS resolution in WSL2 and VPN connected
I'm running a WSL2, Ubuntu 22, within Windows 10. When I nslookup without connecting to VPN, I get the following results (note that all answers are different IP addresses for the FQDN google.com).
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Is the speed of the VPN related to the ISP?
Note that the ISP I mentioned is not the ISP of VPN (such as cloudflare, windscribe), but the ISP of home/school WIFI (it can also be 4/5G)
I'm in China, I use vpn like cloudflare warp to access ...
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Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in /etc/openvpn/server.conf:17: ecdh-curve (2.3.10)
I'm getting line no 17 which is ecdh-curve prime256v1 can anyone help me to solve this problem. Thanks in advance
Options error: Unrecognized option or missing parameter(s) in /etc/openvpn/server....
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Firefox not working with my own DNS server, but everything else does
I've recently setup a CoreDNS server on my "local" tailscale VPN network. Chrome, dig, nslookup, and everything else works with the correct DNS server being queried (I've double checked ...
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Any need for DNS over HTTPS if there is a VPN running?
I am using OpenWrt 22.03.3 with OpenVPN. I was getting DNS leaks (ipleak.net was showing my country DNS), but after setting custom DNS (CloudFlare) for WAN and WAN6 in OpenWRT, ipleak.net shows ...
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accessing one website from my internal network
I have a very strange situation on all of my entire local network
this website can be ping(ed) from all PCs but can not be accessed.
The curl command result with openvpn you can see first in the photo ...
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Remote Procedure Call slow returning error
I have a server process that sends a WMI query to multiple PCs at frequent intervals. Normally it works fine and takes about 1 second to get a result from each PC. When there is a problem reaching a ...
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Multiple simultaneous VPN connections
I am using terminal to connect to multiple VPN instances (in parallel, from a single terminal) with openvpn api in Go. I have many VPN servers. Some combinations of VPNs work together but some of ...
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High latency for bind9 over wireguard
I have a DNS home server running with bind9. To keep using my server outside my local network, I configured a VPN with wireguard.With this command : time wget -O/dev/null https://debian.org, here are ...
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Windows DNS - force local DNS lookup for local domain when using VPN
I have a home network that uses an internal subdomain of a domain that I own, int.example.com. The DNS servers on this network are a pair of Raspberry Pis running Pihole, which refer lookups for *.int....
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Find DHCP hostname and IP address of remote computer (behind firewall)
I’ve got a Mac at work, behind a firewall, with an IP address and hostname assigned via DHCP.
If I have the hostname and/or IP address, I can use ssh or a vnc client to access the machine if I ...
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How do I fix my Wireguard VPN not resolving local domain names?
I am using an Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS server to run wg-easy. I use portainer to manage my docker containers. When my Windows 11 client connects to the Wireguard server, I am able to access both the ...
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As a user on a VPN how do I control which server a DNS request goes to
I work from home using a Windows 10 machine. It's connected to the company network using Forticlient SSL VPN. This uses split tunneling so only certain traffic is routed over the VPN. However, it sets ...
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How does a website detect my location over VPN with not IPv6/DNS/WebRTC leak?
a website like this
https://findmylocation.org/
can detect my location when I explicitly allow my browser to detect my location. the goal is to even if I allow location in browser, the website shouldn'...
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cisco anyconnect strange behavior on disconnection
i have two fedora boxes, one is a fresh fedora 36 install and the other is an upgraded fedora 36 from fedora 35.
the new and fresh one i've installed cisco-anyconnect-vpn-4.10.05095-1.x86_64.rpm ...
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Internal DNS server ignored via VPN
I have the following home network setup:
LAN: 172.16.0.0/24
Proprietary router of my ISP (IPv4, Bridge-Mode -> Bridged to my FRITZ!Box router)
Router & DHCP (FRITZ!Box) -> 172.16.0.1
VPN, ...
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Some apps are not working with double VPN tunnel
Im using 2 VPN app simultaneously on my Macbook Air m1, one (OpenVPN) for my job (several corporate services) and second (ProtonVPN) - for my personal purposes (some of music services are not working ...
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Why can't I connect to my VPN's private DNS servers on some wifi networks?
I usually connect to the Internet using a VPN (via the openvpn client), while also configuring my DNS to use my VPN's private DNS servers as well. But my library's public wifi, I'm only able to ...
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Privacy: VPN and DNS
I'm using a VPN for privacy purposes. If I ensure that the DNS requests are sent through the VPN I can select whatever DNS Server I like? Is there any advantage to using the DNS Server provided by the ...
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OpenVPN - name resolution between connected clients
I am looking for a solution with which distributed clients can easily reach each other via the internet.
For this I have set up an OpenVPN server to which all clients connect.
If I connect myself to ...
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How to set Pi-hole as my DNS server on a Wireguard client
I am trying to setup a Wireguard VPN on a remote Debian server and use Pi-hole on that same server. I installed both of them as Docker containers. For Wireguard I have used wg-easy and for Pi-hole I ...
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How to set specific URLs to use VPN connection for DNS (Windows)?
I have a PPTP VPN connection named "myvpn"
PPP adapter myvpn:
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
Link-local IPv6 Address . . . . . : 4274:35b2:be80::b4d3:97b0%65
IPv4 Address. . . ...
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Connecting sites together to use DHCP
I am working in a company with 3 sites.
London (A) is the main site with 2 subnets separated with NAT network.
Manchester (B) basic broadband router act as DHCP and DNS for local clients
Dublin (C) ...
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Using a local DNS server while connected to a VPN on a windows PC
I have a home network with most devices running NordVPN.
I have a raspberry pi acting as a mini home server - and have just started using Pi-Hole a DNS program that points various tracking and ...
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Set Client IP Address of an RDP Session as an environmental variable
My company uses some software that runs on our terminal server and connects back to a peripheral I have locally connected to my client laptop. The software defines an HKEY_CURRENT_USER registry key ...
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Access RaspberryPi with hostname through VPN server
I'm trying to use a VPN to remotely connect to a raspberryPi using its hostname but I can't make it work.
I have the following setup :
VPN server on a Synology device
RaspberryPi 3 on network A with ...
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Names not resolved with DNS over VPN on Win10
For a couple of months now, when connecting via OpenVPN, resolving hostnames that are on the remote network has not worked for me (but servers work by IP address).
When I run nslookup with the ...
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Why can Avahi `.local` domains not be resolved over a VPN?
I have a homelab setup with a few Raspberries Pi that use Avahi for service announcement - I can ssh to them with ssh pi@<hostname>.local instead of having to remember individual IP addresses. ...
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My vpn is connected but i cannot browse internet
i have problem with vpn recently
i can connect with vpn but not with internet, ping shows up to 200ms more.
mtr -rw api.protonvpn.ch
Start: 2021-11-20T16:49:27+0700
HOST: nonely ...
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OpenVPN connection cannot find route to direct domains, but to subdomains
I have an OpenVPN server running on my NAS at my home network, as well as a DNS server, which has a record nas1 (plus some subdomains) routing to the NAS itself, which I'm using to access different ...
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OpenVPN can't resolve host name with DNS set up
This is most likely a duplicate, but I can't find the correct solution for my problem
I set up a OpenVPN server on our NAS and added push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.4" (this is a random ip, I ...
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Is it possible to configure DNS rules that are only valid inside of a VPN?
I have an internal website and a few microservices that are only accessible on a VPN (which is set up using WireGuard running in docker).
Currently, users access these services by using the private/...
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Extend local network DNS in VPN
I have an OpenVPN configuration, that pulls all routes from the server and then routes everything through that Gateway. This is causing me trouble since the connection is sometimes extremely slow and ...
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Ethernet-to-I2C device stops working under VPN
I have an Ethernet-to-I2C converter box (Promira, from Total Phase; used for interface to microprocessor dev board). It works fine when VPN is off. However, when I turn on VPN, the box either stops ...
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raspberry pi iptables forward DNS requests over VPN
I have used and slightly modified the rpi-wifi script to set up a WiFi access point while using the standard WiFi connections. All is good.
I want to setup ExpressVPN and have all traffic go through ...
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Overriding OpenVPN's DNS Settings to Dorm Network DNS Settings
I use OpenVPN smoothly with Windows 10 behind my dorm network's http proxy. When I use Linux Mint with same client.ovpn, I can Auth successfully.But when I inspect traffic with wireshark, I see that ...
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