1. Most VPN services that you can pay for will be configured to redirect all of your IP traffic through the VPN tunnel. (In openvpn, the server option is “redirect-gateway”.) This will include DNS traffic.
  2. You may or may not be assigned a dns server through a vpn based on
  • a) which vpn implementation you are using
  • b) which OS you are using.

TESTING your VPN Connection

Test by opening up a cli and typing in “nslookup localhost” and looking at the top entry (Windows). Do this BEFORE and AFTER you connect to the VPN Server to see if the dns servers changed.

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