I have a tailscale exit node set up in a Linux VPS. On that VPS I’ve also installed pihole to act as DNS for the tailnet.

When I run a DNS leak test from a machine on the tailnet I get confusing results. I appear to be using servers in my home country (also my current location).

The servers don’t say they are owned by my ISP but I suspect that’s the case. Its the only way the machine could have got their addresses. I’ve tried on multiple machines to test this.

In Tailscale settings each machine is configured to use Tailscale DNS. Tailscale has been told to use Quad9 in the event pihole is unreachable. Needless to say, Quad9 is not located in my home country.

I’m a noob to both Tailscale and pihole so I’m probably missing something obvious?

  • Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyzBEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

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    DNS Domain Name Service/System
    HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
    HTTPS HTTP over SSL
    IP Internet Protocol
    PiHole Network-wide ad-blocker (DNS sinkhole)
    SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
    VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

    5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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