This is true with or without DNS Forwarding being enabled. When the router is acting as the DNS server, DHCP clients will see the LAN side IP address of the router (192.168.50.1 by default) as their DNS server. Note in the description, it says that DNS lookups will be 'intercepted and redirected to the built-in DNS name server.' This means that before a Peplink router can force clients to use its DNS servers, it must first be configured to act as the DNS server. Again, to see which DNS servers your computer is ultimately using, see my Test Your Router page.Īs for Peplink routers, including the Pepwave Surf SOHO that I recommend, the feature that instructs the router to impose its will (its DNS servers) on all attached devices is called DNS Forwarding and, as shown below, it is enabled with a simple checkbox. If that's not possible, then we suggest to set the DNS IP address matching the VPN gateway IP address, as this is the safest method to prevent certain attacks based on hijacking.Įven if the router is functioning as a DNS server, it still has to pass along many, if not most, requests to other DNS servers. However, we recommend that your machine accepts the DNS push from our servers. VPN DNS addresses (private addresses, only reachable from inside the VPN): 10.4.0.1 / fde6:7a:7d20:4::1 - reachable from any virtual subnet It's recommended to use our DNS server to avoid censorship and use our anti-geolocation features. For example, visit a website that allows only United States connections from a Netherlands VPN server. Using our DNS allows our customers to use our anti-geolocation discrimination features. See 'AirVPN does not recognize ICANN authority anymore' topic for more informations.

Where ICANN or root servers themselves interfer with censorship, we may apply specific censorship fix to our DNS server. Our DNS servers are neutral, do not ever inject or alter the requests (other services resolve to search results, try to fix typo etc). Every VPN server has its DNS server, directly finds out information about the root servers, top level domains and authoritative name servers.

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