Using Rethink DNS app btw, I want to use a firewall and VPN at the same time on Android. Wtf?!?
So my IP has somehow just been leaking all this time...
Edit: Typo
this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2025
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Did you activate "block connections without vpn" aka kill switch?
There's only one vpn slot on android. How do you tunnel the connection without a second device?
Did you activate "always on vpn"?
I do, along with "block connections without VPN", but traffic goes through either way ๐คทโโ๏ธ
Tgen it's a bug. Can you reproduce it? Which os?
Samsung "One UI 6.1" / Android 14
On the latest January 1 2025 System and "Google Play System" updates.
Latest version of Rethink DNS v0.5.5n
Its was a multi-hop Wireguard config Switzerland --> Canada
I used two different Switerland --> Canada combination of servers and they both crashed after a few days, and existing and re-adding the certificate doesnt work either.
I'm now using Switzerland --> UK and see if it breaks in a few days...
I have a way to solve your problem only thing is it's going to kill your battery life.
Apps I used to have 2 "vpns"
First Insular or Shelter use one of them to create a work profile.
Apps inside of The Work Profile Exclave VPN APP of choice for example MullvadVPN
Apps outside of The Work Profile Tracker Control PersonalDNSfilter
What I did is that i configured Tracker Control to send all DNS requests to the locally running DNS service that Personal DNS Filter creates as well as telling Tracker controll to not capture trafic from Personal DNS Filter. I also then configured Personal DNS Filter to use Mullvad DNS witg DoH or DoT. Then i configured Tracker control to send all traffic to a socks5 proxy (that is created by Exclave) that way the traffic from a app goes like this.
All traffic that isn't DNS App ---> Tracker contol ---> Exclave ---> MullvadVPN
DNA traffic App ---> Tracker control ---> Personal DNS Filter ---> Mullvad DNS
Look I had this for a while and I don't recommend it due to the battery drain. Remember this setup will use 2 VPN slots run 4 services. A DNS proxy, a full socks5 and A wireguard VPN at the same time as a complete work profile. Good luck tho!
must be firewall > socks > wireguard > vpn
2nd question on netGuard FAQ https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard/blob/master/FAQ.md