Comment on Accessing Unbound DNS on my phone through Wireguard VPN
Evkob@lemmy.ca 22 hours agoI think you misunderstood part of my post, because there’s only one VPN tunnel, from the WG client on my phone to the WG server on my laptop.
I want my phone to use the Unbound DNS server, which is hosted locally on the same laptop that runs my Wireguard server.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Ah, okay. If this is Android, just setup your Unbound host IP under ‘Private DNS’ on your phone then.
Note: this will cause issues once you leave your home network unless your WH tunnel is available from outside. Set the secondary DNS to Mullvad or another secure DNS provider if that’s the case and you shouldn’t have issues once leaving the house.
Evkob@lemmy.ca 20 hours ago
Android doesn’t let me add an IP address under private DNS, it needs to be a domain (like dns.quad9.net rather than 9.9.9.9).
I tried adding a quick DuckDNS domain to my reverse proxy towards port 53, where Unbound is listening. It works, as in I can nslookup using the DuckDNS domain on my desktop (or on my phone when not connected to Wireguard) but if I try to set that domain as my private DNS on Android it says it can’t connect.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Okay, let me just clarify some stuff here because your language has been confusing.
You’re using a “VPN”, but on a local network. When you say “VPN”, people assume mean you’re using a client to a remote location. That’s super confusing.
For what you’re trying to do you don’t even need WG unless you mean to use your DNS server from elsewhere.
Please clarify these two things, but I think you’re just complicating a simple setup for an ad blocking DNS server somehow, right?
Evkob@lemmy.ca 19 hours ago
The reason for the VPN is to have access to my Unbound DNS on my phone from anywhere, not only my local network. If I just wanted to configure the DNS on my local network, I’d set up static IP for my network in Android’s settings and input the DNS server manually. This works fine when I set it up, but like I said I want to use Unbound on my phone anywhere via Wireguard.
I’m not sure what’s the second thing you want me to clarify! Sorry for the confusion, I appreciate you trying to help out :)