Timeline for How to confirm VPN is working properly?
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| Aug 22, 2020 at 19:04 | comment | added | Steffen Ullrich | The answer is now better but still incomplete. You ignore completely that IPv6 exists, i.e. you only check external IPv4 address and only look at the IPv4 routing. Given that many systems today have IPv6 and that major sites are accessible by IPv6 and that IPv6 gets preference before IPv4 if both are available, this is a serious omission. | |
| Aug 22, 2020 at 14:36 | history | edited | Arul Selvan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 22, 2020 at 11:28 | comment | added | Devil07 | Thank you for your contribution Arul. | |
| Aug 22, 2020 at 4:11 | comment | added | Steffen Ullrich | This does only a rudimentary check if the VPN is basically working but does not verify that all relevant traffic is going through the VPN. Specifically it only checks the IPv4 address of the VPN endpoint and does not account for DNS leaks or IPv6 leaks. It also does not check what happens on VPN problems, i..e. if it silently falls back to sending traffic without VPN. | |
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| Aug 21, 2020 at 22:44 | history | answered | Arul Selvan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |