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Your parent said: "DNS leaks can be prevented by using a generic DNS provider such as 8.8.8.8." ... and you replied: "You mean leaking to Google doesn't coun
by rsync 9y ago
Your parent said:
"DNS leaks can be prevented by using a generic DNS provider such as 8.8.8.8."
... and you replied:
"You mean leaking to Google doesn't count as leaking?"
But I don't understand where the DNS leaks would be coming from if you are using an actual VPN for your entire network stack - wouldn't that tunnel all traffic (TCP and UDP) to your endpoint ?
How are you leaking DNS in that scenario ?
- fauigerzigerk 9y agoTwo things should happen: 1) All network traffic should go through the VPN tunnel. 2) All DNS requests should be sent to the VPN provider's DNS server and not to the one configured in the OS. If either or both of these two things isn't happening then it's a DNS leak. If I understood correctly, then mahkoh was saying that (2) doesn't matter if the host DNS is configured to use Google's public DNS server 8.8.8.8. That's what I called "leaking to Google".