Re: Best practice for managing default routes over only VPN connections?

[Chris Laprise <tasket openmailbox org>]

On 11/06/2016 07:30 PM, Paul Swanson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've recently been configuring my Ubuntu 16.10 laptop for default 
> routing via VPN only and have discovered some difficulties.
>
> My goal is to only connect to the Internet via a VPN and ensure that 
> DNS requests are resolved by a trusted server only.
>
> One thing I've noticed is that DNS resolution seems to be handled by 
> NM on a connection by connection basis, but I want to ensure that DNS 
> resolvers are fixed to my choice regardless of the underlying 
> connection, without giving up NM control and dnsmasq for caching.
>
> From what I've seen so far, the configuration bias is towards VPN 
> connections providing tangential access to a private network and NOT 
> as the default route.

I do recall seeing at least one howto for tunneling all traffic over SSH 
a long time ago. However, SSH may not be necessary.... Some VPN services 
offer OpenVPN access on port 443 (HTTPS) for example; This should work 
at least as well as SSH.


Chris

> Would genuinely appreciate any guidance on how to best proceed here.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Paul S.
>
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