I'm kind of confused as to what you're asking on this post. Is it that you want pihole available to you whilst not being on LAN? Or that traffic isn't routed through the VPN? Please clarify, and i'll try to answer.
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Yeah, sorry, I probably included too much irrelevant information.
I’d like the pihole to be available outside of my LAN. I believe I can do so by setting up an OpenVPN configuration on my router.
However, I have a server on the LAN that needs to have it’s traffic masked from my ISP as it handles my torrent and Usenet traffic. My primary question is whether having a VPN set up on my router will interfere with the commercial VPN on the server.
My primary question is whether having a VPN set up on my router will interfere with the commercial VPN on the server.
No, it shouldn't. It's sort of a multihop, so you'd have pretty bad speeds, but if that doesn't bother you then go ahead.
I’d like the pihole to be available outside of my LAN. I believe I can do so by setting up an OpenVPN configuration on my router.
What I would recommend is using a Pi or any computer and hosting a wireguard server on there. If you connect through wireguard (which is a faster and easier to deploy vpn protocol) and choose the local DNS, you will have access to the pihole. But, this is only a VPN straight to your home network, not masking IP or whatever else.
If you want to mask IP and use PiHole, I am not the person to consult since I just use NextDNS when off my home network.
Hope that helps.
Ahh that’s a much better solution than putting it on the router. Thank you.