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How to check if Proton VPN has switched locations? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 5 days ago by westingham@sh.itjust.works to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I have Proton VPN and qbittorrent running on Windows 10 with qbittorrent bound to Proton interface.

Every now and then Proton will reconnect in the background which means the port changes and the IP address changes.

How can I monitor Proton for these changes and either a.) update qbittorrent or b.) use Pushover to notify me that a change has occurred?

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[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Proton will reconnect in the background which means the port changes and the IP address changes.

That's weird. What is the reasoning behind that? That would drive me up the wall. A new IP and port would require a new leak test for me. Some VPN slots have a reverse DNS which attaches an identifier to the whole shebang, and in my mind, is unacceptable.

[–] hamFoilHat@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Can I ask, how do you detect that?

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Without rDNS:

nslookup xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (VPN IP)

** server can't find xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN

With rDNS it might look like this:

nslookup 208.104.203.197

197.203.104.208.in-addr.arpa name = 208-104-203-197.reserved.comporium.net.

ETA: I just pulled 208.104.203.197 out of my firewall. I have beef with them. They hammer me daily from all the way in Gilbert, SC where the fuck that is but I wished they'd stop. I just block their entire CIDR.