Every morning, I do a multiple DNS Leak test just as a precaution. Today, I did the leak test and all my IPs were different. They were the same IP block, just different. This made me suspicious and I set about trying to track the problem down. Turns out, there was a misconfiguration in the VPS. Worked yesterday, different today. I guess it was ghosts or gremlins in the machinery.

I got to thinking, for you guys who download a lot of Linux ISOs, might be a good idea to check daily. Even though you are setting behind a VPN, it’s still worth the minute it takes to fire off multiple DNS Leak checks just for a sanity check.

  • stratself@lemdro.idEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Question: what sort of misconfiguration was it? Might have an effect on the round robin assignments of Cloudflare

    Edit: just FYI, if behind a VPN, you may prefer using the DNS servers of that VPN provider to blend in with others. But I guess your VPN is your VPS so it’s a bit different here