Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents?

From	"Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.ubuntu, alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents?
Date	2015-03-29 02:18 +0000
Organization	Aioe.org NNTP Server
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Marek Novotny wrote:

> The problem is, we actually want to know via a script how it actually
> got resolved. And we can't really do that if the middle man is in the
> way. It's not that the middleman isn't doing the job well, it's that
> having the middleman there at all makes it harder for us to see what the
> actual resolver is. So fire the middleman and just run the script when
> you use the VPN endpoint to see where you are resolving to.
> 
> Make sense?

Thanks Marek for explaining.
Is this what you tried to tell me, paraphrased?

1. With /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf at the default, the 
   dns=dnsmasq is set, which causes the local machine (127.0.1.1) to
   be the dns cache, which it resolves by going to the home broadband
   router, which tells it to get its DNS from Google's 8.8.8.8, which
   it does (but you don't see that happening in the DIG command).

2. With the #dns=dnsmasq commented out in a modified 
   /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf file, the dns cache is now 
   the home broadband router (192.168.1.1) which tells Ubuntu to go
   to the Google DNS server 8.8.8.8 by default. In this case, you can
   easily see that the DIG command is deferring to the router for its
   DNS server definition.

3. When I add the VPNReactor free public VPN to the first situation 
   (#1 above), the VPN service takes over the job of DNS (which prevents
   DNS leaks); but you can't see that from a DIG command, because the 
   DIG command still reports the localhost (127.0.1.1) as the DNS cache
   (because the dns=dnsmasq is enabled).

4. However, when I add VPNReactor free public VPN to the second situation
   (#2 above), since #dns=dnsmasq is disabled, it's easier to see that the
   DNS server is coming from the VPNReactor DNS server (216.230.224.34).

Did I get that right yet?

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Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 04:10 +0000
  Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 00:20 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 05:49 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 02:44 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 16:58 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 15:40 -0400
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 00:53 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 01:44 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 02:18 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 03:07 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 01:51 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 22:41 +0000
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 06:10 +0700
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> - 2015-03-28 19:53 -0400
  Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "The_Chris" <TheChris@nospam.gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 07:32 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-03-28 06:44 -0300
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-28 08:10 -0400
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 15:42 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2015-03-28 10:45 -0500
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "J. P. Gilliver (John)" <G6JPG@soft255.demon.co.uk> - 2015-03-28 16:53 +0000
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-29 08:30 -0400
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2015-03-29 13:23 +0000
              Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "(PeteCresswell)" <x@y.Invalid> - 2015-03-29 12:59 -0400
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-29 18:07 +0000
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 15:06 -0400
                Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard@WizardsTower.invalid> - 2015-03-29 14:15 -0500
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-29 17:39 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Gene E. Bloch" <not-me@other.invalid> - 2015-03-29 16:40 -0700
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-03-28 15:12 -0400
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Dirk T. Verbeek" <dverbeek@xs4all.nl> - 2015-03-29 16:43 -0300
          Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-30 03:08 +0000
            Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-03-30 10:04 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "Maraela J." <Maraelaj@example.com> - 2015-03-28 15:40 +0000
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 05:36 +0700
      Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? "The_Chris" <TheChris@nospam.gmail.com> - 2015-03-29 08:28 +0000
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Mel Bourne <noabode@none.zero> - 2015-03-29 18:08 +0700
        Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Buster Friendly <lah@de.da.ru.ru> - 2015-03-29 08:52 -0400
    Re: Have you ever had a public VPN rat on you when downloading torrents? Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-03-29 09:22 -0400

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