[PLUG] trying to establish a controlled secure internet connection

[American Citizen]

Nat:

The post which you saw is a mess of DNS addresses. I have been able to 
confirm that openvpn from the CLI works correctly with the protonvpn 
config files. KingBeowulf has posted several times on this, including 
his script file and it works well.

I would prefer to stay away from DNS over https (DOH) or DNS over tls 
(DOT) if possible. (why? because I found that 3rd parties love to mess 
with the browser javascript code and do things, so no, I won't have 
Mozilla Firefox running out the door to grab whatever DNS it finds as 
the nearest available)

When you look at the IPV4 spec (and IPV6 spec) no one factored in the 
fact that we needed encrypted DNS, but here we are. In fact both specs 
really are insufficient and never designed to do the job which we need 
today.

I prefer to stay away from Cloudflare. They hide a lot of things. When I 
went to file DMCA complaints, Cloudflare forced me to have to unravel 
the actual websites hiding behind the Cloudflare cloudbank which was 
more work for me.

Right now, my present scheme is working quite well. I set up an extended 
run yesterday, left my computer connected to the internet with just one 
VPN tunnel and everything went great (no DNS robbing or insertions)

Randall

On 2/19/25 15:02, Nat Taylor wrote:
>    It doesn't look like you're using protonDNS.
> Check out this:
> https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/pdmspf/pihole_with_protonvpn/
> It looks like you need to enable DNS-over-https or DNS-over-TLS?
> Maybe cloudflared would help?  There are instructions for installing it on
> a pihole