Roku TV - pfSense - OpenVPN - : Netflix, Hulu, QVC won't stream at all, Prime streams fine

bmeeks

@bill1 said in Roku TV - pfSense - OpenVPN - : Netflix, Hulu, QVC won't stream at all, Prime streams fine:

@bmeeks said in Roku TV - pfSense - OpenVPN - : Netflix, Hulu, QVC won't stream at all, Prime streams fine:

check the box for "Don't Pull Routes

OK, I checked the box. This was not mentioned before. We will see what happens when I go back to the VPN. For now I got it working again. Yes, Roku and Spectrum stream (yea)!!. What I did (I think) to get it working was that I disabled all the outgoing NAT Hybrid rules

Could this be related?
I will give it a little time and then see if i can get the other traffic back through the VPN.
This IS progress. Thanks

You will likely need a few of those NAT rules in place for the VPN to function. You can selectively enable them for testing and see what is required. Don't forget, when testing the VPN, to also test your services that should NOT be going over the VPN to be sure they still work.

I'm betting the "Dont' Pull Routes" setting was a part of your problem. Most VPN setup instructions don't mention that because they assume you will always be sending all of your traffic to them over the VPN tunnel. However, when you want to send some traffic over the VPN but other traffic through your regular ISP, you need to be sure your default route is not changed to be that of your VPN provider. That's what that checkbox does.

stephenw10

At least you still have those WAN NAT rules. Many VPN providers have you remove them to give a feature they totally confusingly name "Kill Switch". Fail Safe would have been much better but I guess that didn't justify their existence sufficiently.
Anyway the problem here was likely that the default route was changed causing Unbound to use the VPN for DNS queries and services like Netflix will detect that and block you.

Steve