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#Nord vpn dns mac#
The VPN is on the Mac (client) because that's the only device on the network that should be using the VPN, and the VPN needs to be disabled/enabled on the fly. Neither of those two solutions are preferable. Move the DHCP from the router to the Pi-Hole itself? Would that alone be a workaround to this local DNS resolution problem?.Move the VPN from the Mac (client) to the Pi-Hole itself, so the Pi-Hole (and all it's DNS clients) don't suffer from "DNS Leaks"?.I wouldn't use this approach with a device like a laptop that joins other external networks, as this may result in unexpected behaviour and potentially leak sensitive data to machines that happen to live at IPs supplied in your hosts file. I believe that file resides at /private/etc/hosts in MacOS, but you want to check more reliable sources on that. If your Mac is stationary within your network, you may try and manually add local hostname definitions to your Mac's hosts file for devices with fixed IPs. If accessing your local devices strictly by IP is possible, use those. Some NordVPN apps may allow you to provide a custom DNS (though that's really a question for NordVPN's support).īut even if it would be possible to provide Pi-hole's private IP address, I would recommend against it in your scenario, as a) you would lose DNS resolution when not connected to your home network and b) you'd leak DNS requests outside the tunnel, as Pi-hole's DNS requests won't pass through your Mac's VPN tunnel. Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass or change any VPN DNS settings in the NordVPN Mac app.