Weird Internet Behavior Starting Selfhost Server & PC's (lemmy.world)

submitted 19 hours ago by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[-] Melody@lemmy.one 1 points 14 hours ago

Is this not just a configuration issue stemming from Dynamic IPs? Similarly; remote public DNS resolvers do commonly rotate their IPs from time to time for privacy reasons and operational reasons. Please check with the DNS providers regarding their practices.

this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2026

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