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    Extra measures

    Feb 08, 2022 4 minutes

    When you connect to a VPN, as well as proxying your traffic and setting the corresponding updates to your routing table, it may also provide you with different DNS settings. On paper this was a reasonable idea. Traditional DNS requests (for example, where linuxformat.com is resolved to 172.31.5.172) are transmitted in the clear, so even if the operator of a DNS server (typically ones ISP) doesn’t know the web page a client is looking at, they at least are aware of the server it’s on. This is known as DNS leakage. You may use another DNS server (such as Cloudflare’s easy-to-remember 1.1.1.1 public offering), but again this is only viable if you trust that operator more than your ISP.

    ISPs may also block certain

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