Every morning, I do a multiple DNS Leak test just as a precaution. Today, I did the leak test and all my IPs were different. They were the same IP block, just different. This made me suspicious and I set about trying to track the problem down. Turns out, there was a misconfiguration in the VPS. Worked yesterday, different today. I guess it was ghosts or gremlins in the machinery.
I got to thinking, for you guys who download a lot of Linux ISOs, might be a good idea to check daily. Even though you are setting behind a VPN, it’s still worth the minute it takes to fire off multiple DNS Leak checks just for a sanity check.
Fair enough.
I see your posts and comments regularly in self-hosted, keep it up. Staying engaged is learning.
The issue is that I know what I know, and that’s it. LOL I’ve had a computer in front of me since the mid 70s, but don’t equate longevity with knowledge. I am self taught in most everything I do whether in real life or digital life. So when something pops up that’s different to your regularly scheduled program, it cause anxiety. Since I am not a real IT professional, solving the issue can sometimes be tedious.
I am, however, a bit sensitive to the word ‘paranoia’. It’s not paranoia to check yourself before you start the day. It takes less than thirty seconds to validate dns leak checks while I’m sipping my coffee. Also, if it wasn’t a habit every morning to check, I probably would have been clueless to the situation. It could have been leaking and I would have never known it.
's-aright. I appreciate greatly, everyone’s willingness to help and give their input. No harm - no foul.