Allowing certain domains to bypass VPN

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nima2019
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PostPosted: Wed May 29, 2019 23:46    Post subject: Allowing certain domains to bypass VPN Reply with quote
I have VPN setup in my dd-wrt router so all network traffic in that router is going through the VPN. Some websites (ex. some of the banks) don't allow visiting their site through VPN.

Is there anyway to allow a select number of domains to bypass the VPN?

Thanks
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bushant
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 0:13    Post subject: Reply with quote
There are a couple methods outlined in this excellent post from @egc.

Simple script for Policy Based OpenVPN Routing [WORKING]
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nima2019
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 14:51    Post subject: Reply with quote
eibgrad wrote:
You can simply define static routes in the OpenVPN client for those domains.

Code:
route amazon.com 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
route cnn.com 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
…



Thanks. I put the following code in the "Addtiional Config" section in the VPN tab. Clicked Save and then Apply Setting but when I go to the bank's website its still not loading.

Quote:
route somebank.com 255.255.255.255 net_gateway
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nima2019
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 15:17    Post subject: Reply with quote
eibgrad wrote:
Well not loading is a different issue then which route is used, WAN vs. VPN.

Do you perhaps have a kill switch that's blocking the WAN?


To my knowledge I dont have a kill switch. All the other sites are loading. Just this bank and few other sites don't load through VPN. Once I disable VPN, they do load. I was hoping the above command would route the traffic to those domains outside of the VPN.
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nima2019
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PostPosted: Thu May 30, 2019 15:34    Post subject: Reply with quote
I'm not using any 'policy based routing'. Does it matter whether I put the line of code on top of the 'Additional Config' section or bottom? The VPN required me to put the following code in there already

Quote:
remote-cert-tls server
remote-random
nobind
tun-mtu 1500
tun-mtu-extra 32
mssfix 1450
persist-key
persist-tun
ping-timer-rem
reneg-sec 0

#log /tmp/vpn.log

#Delete `#` in the line below if your router does not have credentials fields and you followed the 3.1 step:
#auth-user-pass /tmp/openvpncl/user.conf
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