When I ran a VPN test on ProtonVPN’s free account, I uncovered a DNS leak. The DNS is DataCamp Ltd. I tried several different tests and got the same result.
Should I worry about this? Is DataCamp affiliated with ProtonVPN? I couldn’t find anything from a web search.
For what it’s worth, I’m using the ProtonVPN app on my Android phone, OpenDNS on my desktop, and the ProtonVPN CLI on my laptop. Same result with all three.
As long as it isn’t your ISP’s DNS servers, I doubt it’s a problem. ProtonVPN doesn’t own all its servers, so DataCamp may just be their server provider.
Go to ip.me and if on the page it shows “SECURED” then it means that you are using a ProtonVPN IP.
No, if implemented correctly you do not get dns leaks with the free tier. I can say this based on recent work with this ptoduct on kali linux, and I tested on a windows 10 os, and a mobile device.
On all three platforms I did not have to do anything to achieve a dns leak free solution.
That said, there are bound to be configurations which need close examination and reconfiguration to work.
I’m 100% sure they dont serve accounts, paid or not, with servers that leaking your dns. If it was an unknown company providing vpn solutions i would believe it. You can cut down on many things when it comes to free accounts but dnsleak is not one of them.
Here what they say on proton website:
“Note that Proton VPN partners with infrastructure providers around the world, so the ISP may be a third-party provider. As long as the IP address does not belong to your real ISP, you do not have a DNS leak.”
ProtonVPN said they won’t have collocated servers/own them in all countries due to jurisdictions. It’s better to rent so if there’s any problems, it’s on the data centre and ProtonVPN can still keep their Swiss law regulations.
Yep, then it’s expected behavior.
Yes, for most countries servers are rented, thus the ISP is not shown to by ProtonVPN. However, in Sweden, Iceland and Switzerland are owned by ProtonVPN as well as all secure-core servers.
It is because some ips was for other regions in the past and the database of that website may be outdated.
Also if its google, it probably rank IPs with the data it can gather, like location data, cell tower and such and then if many users use an vpn ip from a country, it may flag that IP as that country IP or VPN IP.
Could be a geo-location database mismatch. I know that it happens on Google/Youtube but I haven’t checked whether it can occur on ip.me. Regardless, as long as the ISP name is one of Proton’s providers it should be fine.
Yes and I found out that they use collocated servers for their regular servers in Iceland and Sweden. Their servers in Switzerland is basically their own ISP which is cool.