# Accessing pihole

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**Category:** Community How-to's\
**Created:** [January 5, 2017, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/accessing-pihole/1134 "2017-01-05T11:02:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 5, 2017, 11:51am UTC](https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/accessing-pihole/1134/9 "2017-01-05T11:51:30Z")

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Okay, then you could set up a VPN which will only tunnel the DNS requests and the admin interface. You should be able to find detailed instructions online, like this one

> **[How-To: Network-Manager-OpenVPN overwrites default route](https://www.debuntu.org/how-to-network-manager-openvpn-overwrites-default-route/)**
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> I was trying network-manager-openvpn plugin today on Lucid, I could import my configuration, DNS was set up correctly upon connection/disconnection, route imported correctly (almost :)).

[https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/IgnoreRedirectGateway](https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/IgnoreRedirectGateway)

The idea is to simply don't force all traffic through the VPN, but only make the Pi-hole available through the VPN so you can access it locally and manually set it as DNS server.

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