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How to use KDE Connect with a VPN on Android? (lemy.lol)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've set up a phone with Rethink DNS as a permanent VPN, so nothing can come through, I tried putting KDE Connect in the Bypass Universal list, but it still fails to discover devices on the network and in turn it can't be discovered by others itself.
I tried without VPN active and it all works, of course. Is it possible for the 2 to coexist? If so, what settings should I change?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

if you use Android's built-in setting to set up DNS instead of using an app that uses the VPN slot, you might have more success.

also, you might want toggling "block connections without VPN" off in system settings, I had to disable it when using KDE Connect with Mullvad.

[–] eager_eagle 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Right, the Mullvad app now has a warning that Android's "block connections without VPN" disables both split tunneling and local network discovery. So it must be off when using KDE connect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, I believe the issue comes from that(edit: tried disabling it and it was indeed that), ideally one would keep that setting on, I guess there's no internal Android setting to exclude on an app by app basis unfortunately

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd like to use Rethink DNS (forcefully set to DNS+Firewall) because it keeps a record on-device of the connections that apps tried to establish. So as I understand it's not possible to have both then?

[–] UnfortunateShort 1 points 1 month ago

Ich think you need to turn the blocker off. It seems to block anything not going through the VPN, even if the VPN allows to configure exceptions.