

If your Mac is stationary within your network, you may try and manually add local hostname definitions to your Mac's hosts file for devices with fixed IPs. If accessing your local devices strictly by IP is possible, use those. Some NordVPN apps may allow you to provide a custom DNS (though that's really a question for NordVPN's support).īut even if it would be possible to provide Pi-hole's private IP address, I would recommend against it in your scenario, as a) you would lose DNS resolution when not connected to your home network and b) you'd leak DNS requests outside the tunnel, as Pi-hole's DNS requests won't pass through your Mac's VPN tunnel.


Unfortunately, there is no way to bypass or change any VPN DNS settings in the NordVPN Mac app.
