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<blockquote data-quote="n8chavez" data-source="post: 1109028" data-attributes="member: 90863"><p>Here's my situation, my current VPN subscription to hide.me is about to expire in a few months. But, given the black Friday discounts, I'm looking at getting another one now. I live hide.me, but the one server they have in my city is blocked youtube and asks me to login to watch a video. That's no bueno. The other VPN I like, Mullvad, does the same thing but for Reddit and youtube. Again, no bueno. Ok, not for the issue. I use wireguard on my router; glinet to be specific. Doing so means that I do not use the VPN apps that are associated with the respective services. That means no "killswitches." Yes, the router is supposed to block all non-vpn connections. But I don't trust it. I like to see things working, and would prefer to have a hardware and software solution; a double-killswitch so to speak.</p><p></p><p>Both Mullvad and hide.me offer socks5 that communicates only when an active VPN connection exists. (That is not the same as a socks5 instead of a VPN.) Very few VPNS offer the local socks5. That's a shame because it acts as a safety net. But both of these have the issues I mentioned already. One of the VPNs I was looking at was ProtonVPN. It does not offer the socks5, but in my tests does not get seen as a bot by youtube or Reddit.</p><p></p><p>My options are as follows:</p><p></p><ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Use Mullvad or hide.me, and login every time I want to use Reddit or youtube</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol"> Buy a Protonvpn, and be without the socks5 safety net.</li> </ol><p>Neither of these is ideal. I'm thinking of using Protonvpn and coming up with a way to secure it locally as well. Protonvpn has a locally-run DNS address in its wireguard config (10.2.0.1). If I understand correctly, that means that the DNS server cannot be access without the VPN being up and functional. Is that right? If that's the case then I could simply run the below .bat, which alters my Windows' connections DNS servers to be 10.2.0.1.</p><p></p><p>netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers "n8chaveziscool" static 10.2.0.1 primary</p><p></p><p>My question is, will this method suffice is stopping any communication should the VPN go down? I'm assuming that the DNS server is tied to the VPN, which 10.x.x.x indicates. If not my only other alternative I can think of is setting up my VPN network connection as "private" in Windows and blocking anything domain or ptivate in Windows' firewll. But that seems very flimy. Anyone have ideas on how to stop communication software-wise?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="n8chavez, post: 1109028, member: 90863"] Here's my situation, my current VPN subscription to hide.me is about to expire in a few months. But, given the black Friday discounts, I'm looking at getting another one now. I live hide.me, but the one server they have in my city is blocked youtube and asks me to login to watch a video. That's no bueno. The other VPN I like, Mullvad, does the same thing but for Reddit and youtube. Again, no bueno. Ok, not for the issue. I use wireguard on my router; glinet to be specific. Doing so means that I do not use the VPN apps that are associated with the respective services. That means no "killswitches." Yes, the router is supposed to block all non-vpn connections. But I don't trust it. I like to see things working, and would prefer to have a hardware and software solution; a double-killswitch so to speak. Both Mullvad and hide.me offer socks5 that communicates only when an active VPN connection exists. (That is not the same as a socks5 instead of a VPN.) Very few VPNS offer the local socks5. That's a shame because it acts as a safety net. But both of these have the issues I mentioned already. One of the VPNs I was looking at was ProtonVPN. It does not offer the socks5, but in my tests does not get seen as a bot by youtube or Reddit. My options are as follows: [LIST=1] [*] Use Mullvad or hide.me, and login every time I want to use Reddit or youtube [*] Buy a Protonvpn, and be without the socks5 safety net. [/LIST] Neither of these is ideal. I'm thinking of using Protonvpn and coming up with a way to secure it locally as well. Protonvpn has a locally-run DNS address in its wireguard config (10.2.0.1). If I understand correctly, that means that the DNS server cannot be access without the VPN being up and functional. Is that right? If that's the case then I could simply run the below .bat, which alters my Windows' connections DNS servers to be 10.2.0.1. netsh interface ipv4 set dnsservers "n8chaveziscool" static 10.2.0.1 primary My question is, will this method suffice is stopping any communication should the VPN go down? I'm assuming that the DNS server is tied to the VPN, which 10.x.x.x indicates. If not my only other alternative I can think of is setting up my VPN network connection as "private" in Windows and blocking anything domain or ptivate in Windows' firewll. But that seems very flimy. Anyone have ideas on how to stop communication software-wise? [/QUOTE]
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