No one will judge. But we’re actually interested in the opposite direction.

Hehe, no stupid questions I guess! When googling about this type of stuff, I often stumble across some claims I simply cannot verify myself. Some people say it’s unsafe, some people say it slows down everything and so on and some answers are from >10 years ago, so I feel the need to clarify what’s the status quo. Thanks for your view on that!

Good to know. Turns out that linux users are not lost when it comes to this topic!

I will take that into consideration. I already encrypted my older laptop (hard drive) with LUKS. Is there something special, when it comes to encrypting SSD’s? Do you experience speed losses of SSD after doing so?

Sorry, but can you explain a little, how this is done exactly? What should I see, when everything worked correctly?

According to the upvotes, this seems to be the way. I will try that, thank you!

If it’s not going to be used for that, it could still be used as a good paypal alternative.

Let’s say the torrent started with a working DNS and the issue occured some hours later. Maybe the client wants to check for IP-updates then, but won’t find any, because DNS doesn’t work anymore. It will still keep the IP-adresses resolved at the beginning, right? Because then it would make sense, that I saw some working torrents, even though the issue already appeared.

Yeah, did that. Couldn’t DNS-resolve the website because of the issue, but going via direct IP of the “check-website” (found via who.is) made me at least check my IP, which turned out to be the VPN-IP. Torrent-IP-Checking won’t work, because torrents seem to need at least DNS-resolving at the beginning of download.

Yeah, it may be good. Unfortunately unpredictable things can happen…

I guess I can rule that one out. FF has DNS-over-HTTPS but it’s turned off. The DNS from Mullvad is usually used in my case…

I understand the basic concept of DNS but I am just a little unsure in which part of the process it takes effect. Thanks for your point of view!

Yeah, I will investigate it further. Do you have similar issues?

Interesting!

So if I get it right: Only when starting a torrent, some DNS needs to be resolved? And when the torrent is already running not?

So in my case a possible DNS leak occurs somewhere in the middle of the night. Not right from the beginning.

Thought so too. As described above, I tried pinging 8.8.8.8., which worked out. Didn’t try reaching 8.8.8.8. via browser though.

I also have an alternative privacy-friendly DNS set up in my router. Not sure, if that can be a problem. Normally, the DNS of Mullvad is used.

But another question is: Could that be a privacy-risk? Torrenting works without DNS-resolving, doesn’t it?

Yeah, I tried that with disconnecting and the torrents stopped immediately, which is good.

Just wondering, why I cannot open any websites in the morning, while the torrents are still working…leaves a bad feeling, but maybe I’m also overreacting about this.

I am using the normal version of firefox.

I am currently not aware of a (torrent) leak-checking method, without using the browser. How would be your approach?

And Mullvad is very good with its killswitches.

Yeah, I heard good things about it. Just wanting to make sure, things are going well.

That’s a good thing. Love to see the impacts.

Will still continue avoiding them.

I’m using Debian too. I switched to linux because of privacy reasons and my second thought was that it would be nice if it’s completely developed by an open community without a bigger corporation behind it.

Works great so far. See no reason to change distros.

I can recommend it. I’m using it by myself.