Thousands of DNS requests for domain

[DL6ER]

@sschadwick

Wouldn't using OpenVPN on the droplet route all of my traffic through the droplet?

In standard configuration*: Yes.

[*]: Standard configuration is that the server tells the clients to route all traffic through him

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Accessing pihole

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 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.