cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45140185

I was able to literally 1 hour ago.

I changed my DNS from Next DNS to CIRA Canadian Shield (Protected) to test it out.

Then I was only able to connect to the internet through Mulvad VPN.

Then I changed back to Next DNS and I observe the same behaviour.

How do I determine what is causing the problem?

How do I solve it?

  • ddh@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4·
    12 days ago

    You might need to be more specific. Your VPN needs an Internet connection in order to be established in the first place.

  • doomcanoe@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    3·
    12 days ago

    Can you change your DNS again to test? Just pick Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) or google (8.8.8.8) or something. It’s plausable that you actually can connect to the internet and are instead just unable to perform name resolution. Presumably the vpn is using a different dns server, hence it solves your problems when connected.

    Or I guess you could try to ping a known good ip to see if the dns is the problem. I just pinged google and got this if you want to try it. 142.250.72.14