(windows 10 pro)
I have spectrum internet and use their router because I don’t feel like dealing with replacing routers. Meaning the router config isn’t that in depth compared to having your 3rd party router. I use windscribe VPN, how do I get pihole to block all ads and allow me to windscribe on my devices?
Thanks
Windscribe is probably providing your DNS when you connect. It’s likely that it completely bypasses your routers DNS and your pihole.
I’m unfamiliar with windscribe. But I know if I connected to PIA or Nord they would both bypass any DNS settings I had set up in the house.
If the VPN has an option to allow you to specify Dennis servers you could point it to the pie hole but it looks like windscribe already provides ad blocking.
did you intentionally say Dennis server? cause I’m gonna start saying that regardless.
He needs a more intelligent router. Something proper would allow a locally global DNS routing option. Even though the VPN is binding all outgoing traffic, the router itself isn’t directing traffic through the local DNS server before heading out of the network through the tunnel.
I have spectrum, and their provided router/wifi tower thing is a piece of junk.
The Pihole should indeed be the primary DNS.
The DNS of the VPN should be setup somewhere on the Pi Hole as a sort of secondary DNS.