I’m very dumb to all this so I ran a dns leak test without my vpn and it showed my location and abunch of dns addresses. Ran it again and this time it shows my VPN IP and only one DNS address but it’s the same area where my vpn is located and is saying my system is leaking my dns requests even though I have my vpn on and my dns settings manually changed to Nords. Is this bad ?
normally you shouldn’t have to enter nord’s dns servers manually. I’d delete those entries (leave custom dns off) clear cookies, reconnect to the vpn, and run the leak tests again.
Yea the one server that shows up is nowhere near mine
Your location is only relevant if you want to circumvent a geolocation-based DRM. You can use Nord’s DNS addresses, there is nothing wrong with that, but your PC will use the DNS for the VPN-connection anyway (if the VPN is active), not your ISP’s filtered DNS.
Those leak tests are showing the information your system gives off, which is not an actual leak if they show the information of your VPN-connection.
It’s a fear-tactic, I saw a VPN-provider using it too, where the test says you are “vulnerable”, although you can clearly see that the information the test has is your VPN’s information, not your actual IP and location.
So I should have no dns severs at all? My IP isn’t apparently being leaked just don’t know much about all this.
Yea after many different sites I tested two of them showed me I’m fine and then I had to research the one leak and it showed some ISP provider and then the other test showed me its the same dns ip but it’s nord so I learned that nord owns it like I’m new to all this
if custom dns is off, you’ll use the standard nord dns servers, which, unless you have a very specific reason, is the way it should be.
However it’s still showing one DNS server is that bad ?
as long as it’s not your actual isp’s dns, then you’re good.
double check by disconnecting, running the leak test, seeing what your actual ip and dns server is, then reconnecting, clearing all cookies/history and running the leak tests again. the two sets of results should have zero ip addresses in common
After awhile I got figured out