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ShEepCr3eper
Asked: 2020-09-23 00:39:02 +0800 CST

NordVPN local network addresses not reachable when connected

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I'm using nordvpn CLI on Ubuntu for quite a while but, since a few days, when I'm trying to reach any other client in my local network, I'm getting e.g. the following problem:

$ ping 192.168.178.1
PING 192.168.178.1 (192.168.178.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

where 192.168.178.1 is my router. When I disconnect from NordVPN I can reach other clients again.

I already read about similar problems being related to the nordvpn killswitch, but it is disabled and I also tried to enable and then to disable it. I also tried to disable the ufw, and reinstalled nordvpn but that didn't help either.

As it might be helpful, here my nordvpn settings:

$ nordvpn settings
Technology: OpenVPN
Protocol: UDP
Kill Switch: disabled
CyberSec: disabled
Obfuscate: disabled
Notify: enabled
Auto-connect: disabled
DNS: disabled

Might be that it's something quite stupid or easy to resolve, but I'm struggling with that for a few days now.

networking vpn ping

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Same same. I thought maybe it was a bug in the app, but 3.8.5 is the same.

    My settings (which worked several nordvpn app versions ago):

    Technology: NordLynx
Kill Switch: disabled
CyberSec: disabled
Notify: enabled
Auto-connect: enabled
DNS: 1.0.0.1, 1.1.1.1

    Resolution (Later)

    Hahaha! Got it! Whitelist your internal. Mine is 192.168.2.xxx, adjust yours accordingly.

    nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.2.0/24
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  2. Whitelisting my subnets only allowed me to make connections using IP addresses. I'm lazy and prefer hostnames. So I had to add my DNS server (my router) to the Nordvpn configuration. My router is at 192.168.50.1. So I used the command nordvpn set dns 192.168.50.1

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