Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Sat May 27, 2023 4:52 am

Unfortunately, I still get DNS leaks to my ISP using Chrome Edge using for example https://ipx.ac/run - I don't get this issue with other VPN's I've tried including AdGuardVPN I'm using now or OVPN / IVPN / Bullet / Mullvad etc (tried these out of interest) -Sorry about this but, not sure where to go now with HideAway? If others are OK, looks like using an alternative VPN.
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nick.bolton
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Sat May 27, 2023 7:07 pm

Hey thanks for the tests, interesting there's quite a few which don't detect it as a leak, but there's a couple which do, including the link you sent. We'll keep investigating.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Sun May 28, 2023 7:06 am

When I have a minute tomorrow I'll check which sites show a leak & which don't - It's interesting that some well known sites for leak tests don't show a leak - In others opinion if I don't show any leaks on Firefox for example but do on Edge, am I OK using Firefox with Hideaway?
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nick.bolton
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Sun May 28, 2023 10:17 am

Yes, I use Firefox and it works all the time well. When we first started HideAway, we found some of these dns leak sites (most are owned by other VPNs) would give a bit of false info to make their own VPN look better.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Mon May 29, 2023 12:43 am

To my regret, Brave, Edge, Chrome - any Chrome based browsers are leaking.

Here is one test site:

https://www.perfect-privacy.com/en/tests/dns-leaktest

Another test site that clearly indicates my ISP DNS servers:

https://browserleaks.com/dns

And this one shows the leak:

https://ipleak.net/
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nick.bolton
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Mon May 29, 2023 10:31 am

This fixes it.

https://25fc482ddf92aa413bac-f38e90dc86 ... -setup.exe

Close HideAway down before installing this version.

There were some non-standard DNS requests that we were ignoring since they were non-standard. Let me know how you get on
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nick.bolton
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Mon May 29, 2023 9:18 pm

FYI, HideAway wasn't really leaking, it was just showing the DNS sever used by the ISP, not your real IP. Because A/AAAA records were being done correctly but those testing websites use non-standard DNS record types to test their leak, and one of those we were skipping because it's non standard.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Tue May 30, 2023 12:58 am

nick.bolton wrote:
Mon May 29, 2023 9:18 pm
FYI, HideAway wasn't really leaking, it was just showing the DNS sever used by the ISP, not your real IP. Because A/AAAA records were being done correctly but those testing websites use non-standard DNS record types to test their leak, and one of those we were skipping because it's non standard.
Thank you very much.
No more DNS leaks.
Now, we are back in business.
Thank you.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Wed May 31, 2023 12:37 am

He's only gone & fixed it! :lol: :lol: :lol: Thank you
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Wed May 31, 2023 2:55 am

It looks like my yesterday's happiness was short-lived. :(

Here are the new Brave tests today.

From https://www.dnsleaktest.com/results.html

It shows only(!) my ISP DNS. Nothing to do with HideAway. :cry
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Here is my Brave test from https://browserleaks.com/dns

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Student Sheep
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Wed May 31, 2023 5:23 am

For me the problem occurred on a couple of sites which showed 'Virgin Media' my ISP while running HideAway - The latest release (4.40.1) has solved the issue on every site I've tried it on - I've tried it on all the 'leak' sites I have.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Thu Jun 01, 2023 5:37 am

Some interesting facts.

I have three computers connected to my local network (no domain.)
And only one computer with Chrome-based browsers is leaking.
The other two are not leaking my ISP DNS while using Chrome-based browsers.
It's really strange, because all my computers - different models but with Windows 11 - have the same Bitdefender AV, the same browsers, the same extensions.
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Thu Jun 01, 2023 11:34 am

If you want to experiment with a chrome based browser, try ""ungoogled chromium"

Version 112.0.5615.138 (Official Build, ungoogled-chromium) (64-bit)

It seems to be very fast and is claimed to be free of google junk.

Extensions are a bit tricky to install but i am very impressed so far.

Maybe give it a try and see if the problem still exists

Info here https://ungoogled-software.github.io/un ... m-wiki/faq

https://github.com/NeverDecaf/chromium- ... e/releases

https://avoidthehack.com/manually-insta ... d-chromium

https://avoidthehack.com/how-to-install ... extensions
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Re: Brave leaks DNS while using HideAway

Thu Aug 24, 2023 5:43 pm

Since the Secure DNS option in Brave doesn't seem to be doing the trick

Go ahead and manually set up a secure DNS server in your browser's security settings. Give Cloudflare, NextDNS, or Google's DNS servers a shot. This could be your ticket to stop those pesky ISP DNS leaks when using HideAway for where am i.

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