I use shelter to use apps that I need to be on for school, like WhatsApp (which I can’t stop using unless I am out of school). I used RethinkDNS as both firewall and DNS because I am on a cheap android phone which doesn’t really have custom ROM support, I have removed google apps as much as I can, and used RethinkDNS to block other stuff.
Now I recently noticed that RethinkDNS even in lockdown mode does not run in the work profile created by shelter ? So I tried using the inbuilt android private dns with rethink but it doesnot work - since in lockdown mode all traffic is routed through the RethinkDNS. Is there a sollution for this ? I don’t just wanna use nextdns through the Android private dns setup as it doesnot give the firewall capability.
tl;dr- how to use RethinkDNS with firewall+dns when using shelter ?
I couldn’t even get the inbuilt+rethinkDNS as just a firewall to work. It sucks so bad - but I guess there is nothing the devs can do, since it is an android problem.
The problem with running both at the same time is battery life tho
To have a separate VPN for the work profile actually makes sense.
You just don’t use the work profile for your employers apps and you use the VPN interface for a firewall application.
But I feel your pain.
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You have to install rethink DNS on the “island” as well (and so run it twice) I’m afraid. Sucks but I never found a solution to this.
BTW there is a FOSS fork of Island / alternative to Shelter: Insular.
I couldn’t even get the inbuilt+rethinkDNS as just a firewall to work. It sucks so bad - but I guess there is nothing the devs can do, since it is an android problem. The problem with running both at the same time is battery life tho
I don’t think it’s a problem. It is logically the correct way of doing so.
To have a separate VPN for the work profile actually makes sense. You just don’t use the work profile for your employers apps and you use the VPN interface for a firewall application. But I feel your pain.
It does make sense, but there could be an option to use the standard network interface.