Route all traffic through the VPN and not allow leaks?

[xLively 0]

I'm trying to make it so all of my traffic goes through the VPN and no traffic goes around it. I am running windows 7. How can I route all of my traffic through AirVPN while also not allowing any traffic to go around it?

[strideram 11]

If you are not using the latest Eddie client (https://airvpn.org/windows_ex), I recommend you do use it. Under Preferences, it has many options to enable the behaviour you wish. Check the Routes and Advanced tabs. Additionally, there is an existing thread (https://airvpn.org/topic/9609-blocking-non-vpn-traffic-with-windows-firewall/) that you may find of use.

 

I personally don't have any explicit routes defined. I believe the default there implies force all traffic through the VPN. Under Advanced, I enabled "DNS Switch", "Ensure tunnel uses AirVPN DNS", "Check if tunnel works" and three settings under "Windows Only". I have found these help resolve any DNS leak issues. You can confirm the same by visiting http://ipleak.net after connecting the VPN.

[mycrows 1]

If you are not using the latest Eddie client (https://airvpn.org/windows_ex), I recommend you do use it. Under Preferences, it has many options to enable the behaviour you wish. Check the Routes and Advanced tabs. Additionally, there is an existing thread (https://airvpn.org/topic/9609-blocking-non-vpn-traffic-with-windows-firewall/) that you may find of use.

 

I personally don't have any explicit routes defined. I believe the default there implies force all traffic through the VPN. Under Advanced, I enabled "DNS Switch", "Ensure tunnel uses AirVPN DNS", "Check if tunnel works" and three settings under "Windows Only". I have found these help resolve any DNS leak issues. You can confirm the same by visiting http://ipleak.net after connecting the VPN.

 

This solved my DNS leak on Windows 7 (diagnosed by ipleak.net). Thanks. FYI, I did have to disconnect and reconnect to a server before the leak was resolved.

[hashswag 11]

I'm now using the Eddie 2.6 client on Windows (was using directly OpenVPN previously).

 

Question for Staff:

Does the latest Eddie client with the Windows options mentioned above mean that we do not need Comodo Firewall to control DNS leaks on Windows?

 

I did a test.  Unchecked Force DNS and "Switch DHCP to Static".  With Comodo enabled (set up properly to prevent DNS leaks), the DNS test at grc.com produced 3 DNS entries (two Amazon aws and one in Netherlands, all presumably belonging to AirVPN.  I then disabled the firewall and enabled the settings within Eddie.  This resulted in the same 3 DNS entries.

 

Testing with the firewall off and unchecking those Windows Only settings resulted in 4 DNS entries.