u/mister_ninny

Hello fellow humans.

In OPNsense, I have a Windscribe VPN connection configured using Wireguard that routes all of my internet traffic through a Windscribe tunnel. The VPN tunnel itself works very well, but I'm having connectivity issues when trying to use the Windscribe DNS server that Windscribe provides.

For some reason, on random occasions, I just suddenly won't be able to connect to the Windscribe DNS server anymore. I do a DNS leak test, and it shows me I'm using my ISP-provided DNS instead. If I go into OPNsense when this happens, I can also see that my Windscribe "gateway" is "offline" (even though it's not) simply because it can't access the DNS server.

To fix the issue, I need to go into the "Unbound DNS" -> "Query Forwarding", disable the Windscribe DNS, enable some other DNS service (like Quad9), then enable the Windscribe DNS (only *then* will it actually connect to this DNS server), then disable the other DNS service, and suddenly, when I do a DNS leak test, it says I'm using the Windscribe VPN DNS server.

Under "System" -> "General", I don't have any DNS servers specified here, and I have the WAN override disabled. The DNS server is properly configured in my Wireguard VPN instance/peer, and the firewall isn't blocking the connection (I checked the logs). Under "Unbound DNS" -> "Query Forwarding", I only have two DNS servers enabled (my local domain which forwards to Dnsmasq DHCP, and the Windscribe DNS).

Basically just wondering if anyone else has had any issues like this using the Windscribe DNS server for the VPN?

Hey there! So I'm trying to get Windscribe working on my OPNsense VM, and I just can't seem to get it to work. I have a background in IT, so I'm not new to this stuff, but holy moly I have spent upwards of 5 hours going through every setting, trying a bunch of stuff, and nothing works. Spent so much time just throwing spaghetti at a wall to see what sticks, changing random settings between my VPN peer, instance, gateway, firewall rules, firewall aliases, NAT rules, interfaces, but I just can't get it to work.

Doesn't help that there is, like, 0 decent documentation online for how to get specifically the Windscribe VPN working on OPNsense (or PFSense, for that matter). There are a *ton* of guides out there for setting up other VPNs in OPNsense, the best one by far being this here, but every guide I find not only doesn't work, but has conflicting information with all the other guides I find, not very helpful...

So, I ask my fellow OPNsense warriors, anyone out there using Windscribe VPN with OPNsense? If so, how did you get it configured and working?

So context, I'm moving to Milwaukee soon, likely going to live around Riverside Park/Upper East Side. However, I'm not really from a bigger city like Milwaukee, I'm very used to just driving everywhere, so I guess I'm not really sure what's, like, the most cost-effective way for getting around for stuff.

From the apartment I'm applying for, it's ~15 minute walk to the nearest restaurants/cafe/bars/etc, it's about a ~25 minute walk to get to the nearest grocery store. So walking for some stuff is very ideal, but obviously for anything outside that ~15 minute walk I'll need to consider an alternative.

I could drive to most places, but then you consider parking/gas bills, also car maintenance, seems like that might pile up.

Obviously, there is the public transit system, but I'm not sure how much the average person spends a month using that to commute to work or go to the store, so I am unsure if it's consider cheaper then using your own car.

There's also the bikes/scooters, but I legit never see anyone use those whenever I'm in a city, so I have no clue if they actually are a good option or not.

So I guess my question is, for anyone living in Milwaukee, in your experience, how do you get around? Or how would you recommend getting around?