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by byteshock 1320 days ago
I think it’s because SPN uses a different IP/node per connection you make. DNS leak detection tests will ask your browser to resolve unique subdomains. If the DNS server that requests the lookup is different from your connecting IP to the website, they will say you have a DNS leak.

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/42752/how-does-...

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That would be true if would be resolving all DNS yourself. Nowadays everyone uses a recursive resolver. See my other answer for details about this case.