Macos – Chrome not using VPN DNS (Everything else is)

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DNS in chrome is not using my VPN DNS:

  1. Things that should match private vpn DNS records are instead resolving again a public wildcard address
  2. This only seems to happen in Chrome, iterm pings and firefox resolve correctly
  3. clearing the host cache via chrome://net-internals/#dns doesn't
    help, not does clear all cache via settings. Restarting Chrome also
    doesn't seem to help
  4. Going to a website via IP in Chrome works fine

Best Answer

For some reason using the "Built-in Asynchronous DNS" was not selecting my VPN DNS servers. I could see that the VPN DNS server was not being used via chrome://net-internals/#dns. As a workaround, I disabled this via chrome://flags:

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