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      kendalja @Gertjan
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      @Gertjan I shutoff the vpn and it works! I set the dns resolver to wan, bring back up the vpn connection and it still works....wth?

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        kendalja
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        )FF935C7E-432C-45BB-A76F-939285F4C330.jpeg

        Now I’m trying to post and seeing this lmfao

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          johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
          last edited by johnpoz

          Well once you have the correct ns cached for the domain, you don't have to go ask again.. Which is why I mentioned poisoning..

          Also how did you set resolver to only use wan?

          Also are you pulling routes from your vpn? This makes your vpn default, even if not policy routed. Did you actually change the resolver to only use wan, or did you set it to all? etc..

          Posting a lot of text can sometimes be seen as spam.

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            kendalja @johnpoz
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            @johnpoz

            I went to services, DNS resolver, network interface was already set to ALL. I changed outgoing network interface from PIA_VPN to WAN.

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            • johnpozJ
              johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
              last edited by johnpoz

              @kendalja said in Blocking certain websites:

              network interface was already set to ALL

              No it wasn't - from your screenshot.

              See here
              vpn.png

              Not talking about the inbound to unbound, only outbound.

              I would restart unbound, set it back to the way you had it.. do the trace again - are you seeing those tonic.to in the trace again?

              It could of been a red herring with your vpn - and just that you had cache poisoned already.. You need to make sure you flush your unbound cache.. A restart of unbound will do that for you - just need to make sure it actually restarts, etc.

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                kendalja @johnpoz
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                @johnpoz

                Right there is also a section above that and it’s set to all. I now have the outgoing to WAN.

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                • johnpozJ
                  johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
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                  Well if everything is working that way - set it back to your vpn path for outgoing, and flush - are you seeing the problem with the tonic.to in the trace? If so something really wrong if your vpn connection!! And they are manipulating your dns queries.

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                    kendalja @johnpoz
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                    @johnpoz

                    Read above on my post about the “to” in my logs lmfao. User error.

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                    • johnpozJ
                      johnpoz LAYER 8 Global Moderator
                      last edited by johnpoz

                      huh?

                      Here is where the to has been coming from. I've been executing the command "dig +trace to ns1.fmlh.edu"

                      tonic.to should be no where in a trace to that..

                      Nor to your original fqdn..

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                        kendalja @johnpoz
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                        @johnpoz

                        While executing the command I actually typed in “dig +trace to ns1.fmlh.edu” instead of “dig +trace ns1.fmlh.edu”

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