Close OpenVPN Leaks
Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2017 1:34 pm
I have just recently set up OpenVPN V 11.8.0.0 on a Raspberry Pi.
At setup time, I read that the ISP could get access to my transmissions, so I selected the Open DNS server instead. Then I found an article about VPN leaks and went to https://whoer.net/#extended to check on my leaks. Found three, of which I have plugged two. The third is more confounding for me.
This third leak is caused by my ISP being in Canada and Open DNS being in the USA, which was news to me! My displayed IP address is the one that my ISP issues. So I have been trying to change the DNS server to a Canadian one. This is the problem that I am having. I have tried several modifications to my client configuration file suggested online at other sites, none of which work. Then I read that the change has to be made to the server.conf file and pushed to the clients. So this is my dilemma.
I would like to do this without having to start from scratch. How can this be done? Is it done from the OpenVPN terminal window? How? Do I add something to the server.conf file? I have tried
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.4"
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.5"
but using Canadian server addresses, which did nothing!
Do I need to create and run a script to apply the changes to the server.conf file? If so, what would that script look like? How do I apply it?
Thanks for helping out a newbie.
quickcurrent
At setup time, I read that the ISP could get access to my transmissions, so I selected the Open DNS server instead. Then I found an article about VPN leaks and went to https://whoer.net/#extended to check on my leaks. Found three, of which I have plugged two. The third is more confounding for me.
This third leak is caused by my ISP being in Canada and Open DNS being in the USA, which was news to me! My displayed IP address is the one that my ISP issues. So I have been trying to change the DNS server to a Canadian one. This is the problem that I am having. I have tried several modifications to my client configuration file suggested online at other sites, none of which work. Then I read that the change has to be made to the server.conf file and pushed to the clients. So this is my dilemma.
I would like to do this without having to start from scratch. How can this be done? Is it done from the OpenVPN terminal window? How? Do I add something to the server.conf file? I have tried
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.4"
push "dhcp-option DNS 10.66.0.5"
but using Canadian server addresses, which did nothing!
Do I need to create and run a script to apply the changes to the server.conf file? If so, what would that script look like? How do I apply it?
Thanks for helping out a newbie.
quickcurrent