After Updating to 388.1 & Enabling OpenVPN Client Diversion stopped working

[Skeptical.me]

My VPN Settings

I have always set Accept DNS Configuration to Exclusive and Redirect Internet traffic through tunnel set to ALL when using a VPN client with Diversion. It has been the only way for Diversion to work with a VPN running (using ExpressVPN). But now after the update to 388.1 in my RT-AX88U when I enabled the VPN client Diversion stopped working. And it remains broken even after disabling the VPN.

Does anyone understand why this is happening?

 

[ColinTaylor]

Read the changelog.

388.1 (3-Dec-2022)

  - CHANGED: Setting an OpenVPN client to redirect all traffic while
             in "Exclusive" DNS mode will now force redirect ALL
             DNS traffic just like in VPN Director mode.
             While this will allow redirecting clients with
             hardcoded DNS servers, it also means that your whole
             LAN will lose the ability of doing local name
             resolution.  It might be best to use VPN Director
             in that case to control which client should
             be involved in the DNS redirection, or use
             DNS Director instead of Exclusive DNS mode.

 

[Skeptical.me]

Read the changelog.

388.1 (3-Dec-2022)

  - CHANGED: Setting an OpenVPN client to redirect all traffic while
             in "Exclusive" DNS mode will now force redirect ALL
             DNS traffic just like in VPN Director mode.
             While this will allow redirecting clients with
             hardcoded DNS servers, it also means that your whole
             LAN will lose the ability of doing local name
             resolution.  It might be best to use VPN Director
             in that case to control which client should
             be involved in the DNS redirection, or use
             DNS Director instead of Exclusive DNS mode.

Thanks for your reply. In that case, would I disable Accept DNS Configuration and what settings would I use in DNS Director?

 

[Skeptical.me]

Read the changelog.

388.1 (3-Dec-2022)

  - CHANGED: Setting an OpenVPN client to redirect all traffic while
             in "Exclusive" DNS mode will now force redirect ALL
             DNS traffic just like in VPN Director mode.
             While this will allow redirecting clients with
             hardcoded DNS servers, it also means that your whole
             LAN will lose the ability of doing local name
             resolution.  It might be best to use VPN Director
             in that case to control which client should
             be involved in the DNS redirection, or use
             DNS Director instead of Exclusive DNS mode.

I've reverted to 386.5_2 until I workout what to do, thanks.