Recent content by Chenks

opnsense is running perfectly fine, so no luck is required. i asked a question about a setting due to ambiguity in the wording used. what you did was try to be an butt about it, nice try though, but you'll need to pick on another sucker as this one is the wrong target if you want to do down that...

read what i said in the second line of my opening post.

well the GUI says AP mode, it doesn't say the 8 port ethernet switch is also active. the GUI also suggest "mesh router mode" and i don't want router mode at all, hence asking the question here. oh, and i have to read the user manual do i? :rolleyes: there was me thinking i'd tap into the...

might be a bit of an odd question, but is it possible to put an RT-AX88U into a mode where it's just running as a switch and AP, and not as a router? i'm in the process of moving over to using an opnsense router, but waiting on other kit to arrive before i complete the change (switches and APs)...

i have 2 rules in the VPN director. 1 rule for a specific device where all traffic gets forced thru the VPN 1 rule for a specific WAN IP where no matter what device it is that specific WAN traffic goes thru the VPN 1 specific device in rule 1 has a DHCP reservced IP address - so that suggestion...

essentially what i need, and thought VPN director would achieve that, is for any device where VPN director is routing WAN traffic thru the VPN that DNS resolution also goes thru the VPN. from what i understand this should be possible. afterall, if i was to install NordVPNs app on any of my...

the first part of that thread i actually already have 90% of that configured as it mentions, the only exception being the DNSFilter config. however i believe this is not the solution to the issue i'm referring to, and is a fix to a different issue. i believe what is needed is the custom...

see my edit above

my pihole isn't the DHCP server, so it doesn't know the "hostname" of a device, well it didn't when i tried a couple of the named devices i have on the LAN C:\Users\chenk>nslookup Default Server: pi.hole Address: 192.168.50.2 > xpslaptop Server: pi.hole Address: 192.168.50.2 *** pi.hole...

i'm hoping @eibgrad is around as i'm sure they have discussed this previously and have advised on adjusting the custom configuration.

i'm not talking about using the NordVPN client apps, i'm talking about the router itself connecting to NordVPN, and then using VPN director to target specific devices to go thru the VPN, and other not.

that's being a bit pendatic, isn't it? clearly that meant i suspect that DNS is still "routing" via my pihole. a local hostname as in the hostname of a LAN device?

yes i know pihole isn't a router, i didn't suggest it was. i have the pihole DNS set via DHCP as the DNS for any connected devices, and due to nordvpn saying i needed to change that to nordvpn DNS (which i didn't and won't do), i suspect that DNS resolution is being done by local pihole when it...

looking for some advice on my current VPN client connection (NordVPN) i've set it up accroding to the NordVPN instructions - with one exception that it said to set the router DNS to their DNS IPs, but as i use pihole and i'm only targetting specific devices or IPs (via VPN director) then that...

oh don't get me started on VPN. i am currently testing routing certain traffic thru a VPN (NordVPN) using VPN director (think you saw a previous thread i had about something similar), and i'm sure i have DNS leak somewhere, but haven't had the change to investigate more and seek out some assistance.