PiHole + VPN

[Jazzymaz]

I'm kinda new to a lot of this,
But i was wondering, Is there a way to still use PiHole, And also connect to a VPN maybe on a VPS in order to mask my public ip address? So that way, The whole network is behind the VPN and all requests appear to be from the VPS?

This might be a silly idea, but just wondering.

[RamSet]

It is theoretically possible but you'd have to fight the DNS network parameters pushed by the VPN provider.

See this post:

Force Private/Paid VPN (like IPVanish or NordVPN) to use Pi-Hole DNS (II)

Expected Behaviour: When a device on my network uses a private VPN (like IPVanish, NordVPN, etc.) to connect to the internet, it uses the PiHole for DNS rather than the private VPN’s DNS service. Actual Behaviour: When connected to a private VPN, clients bypass the PiHole and use the VPNs DNS service. As a result, ads are present. Summary of setup: Router --> Tomato PiHole --> RPI3, connect to the Tomato router via eth0 VPN --> Paid service provider, NordVPN. On Linux clients, the VPN connec…

[Jazzymaz]

Ok thanks, your help is much appreciated.

[timbo]

You probably want to install pi hole right on your VPS. I use a VPS with OpenVPN and Strongswan. I've got OpenVPN tested and working with PC and Phone, pushing the openvpn server IP as the DNS IP, but Strongswan DNS not working for unknown reasons on Phone but works on PC. Go figure.

Note, the pi hole installer script doesn't seem to handle public, static IPv4 IP addresses (tested with Centos), so you probably need to modify the install script to not abort when it fails to set the already set static IP.

Pi hole wiki