Only my computers and devices using my pihole on a vps

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Hi community,

I m new to Pihole. I m right now the only device using the pihole hosted on a vps (testing purposes before putting it as my main dns server on my router).
I did add a certificate as well to access the dashboard via https.
My question is the following.
How to make sure that only the connection from my router will be able to use the pihole.
This morning on the dashboard I saw a HUGE amount of dns requests, from a computer or device definitely not coming from my computer (top clients ( [ip24-255-241-*.ks.ks.cox.net)

How can I achieve this ?

Thanks for your time.

H

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You're likely running an open resolver. Close port 53!

If you host it on a VPS, make sure to only access it via VPN.

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Thank you for your answer.

Not sure if I get it 100%>

You mean that I should close the port 53 on my vps and All the clients should go via a vpn to access the internet or just the pihole console?

Sorry for my lack of knowledge :slight_smile:

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Yes. Close port 53 on your VPS. All you clients should establish a VPN connection to this server and send their DNS traffic via this VPN connection. Also your pihole web interface should only be accessible via this VPN.