ANSWERED Correct AirVPN DNS server with local DNS server (pihole)

[asdq70 0]

Hi,

 

Besides a DD-WRT router acting as my openvpn client to AirVPN, I am running pihole on a raspberrypi, which acts both as local DHCP and DNS server. The later is done by pihole, which simply removes some ads. I have defined 10.4.0.1 as external DNS server in pihole and this is working fine.

 

But due to this setup, I cannot rely on the DNS server push from AirVPN when I am connecting via openvpn. With "gen 2", IP6 and all, can I rely on 10.4.0.1 as "hard coded" DNS server in the future? It is no longer reachable via ping but DNS resolving works.

 

Thanks for any input

[OpenSourcerer 1435]

10.4.0.1 is reachable from all subnets in the VPN network. So it's a reliable address.

 

In fact, I've been using static 10.4.0.1 for some years now and for 1.5 years I've been connecting to different ports as well (which affects the subnet).

[asdq70 0]

Thank you very much for your feedback. It is truly appreciated. Then I just stick to 10.4.0.1.