Assuming you are about to jump into your first manual VPN, I'll try to explain basics step by step
- Normal:
Client(your device) → ISP → DNS → Destination - With Proxy:
Client(your device) → Proxy → Proxy's DNS Built-in → ISP → Destination
It turns example.com into the IP address that the Internet uses.
A computer asks a DNS server to look up the address.
The server replies with the IP (or says “not found”).
- DHCP - Your router or ISP handle the DNS Automatically
- Static - You type a specific DNS address (e.g.,
8.8.8.8) into your network setting, control it manually and ignore ISP's DNS
first things to know is that in order to run this procedure, we need a platform that is called "GUI Client" in slang also known as Program/App etc.