If you don't want to bother with this, something a lot of people do is run qBittorrent with Proton in Docker. There are containers that will pipe any changes directly into qBittorrent. The one I use on my media server is from binhex. All self contained and easy to update since it's Docker.
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proton allows generating woreguard config for a specific server even on free plans on their wrbsite, worth checking out
or you could just have a script tobperiodically check your external ip with something like icanhazip.com and automatically make needed changes
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.
Can I ask, how do you detect that?
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.
test
Can confirm that this happens on mobile (installed via F-Droid on GrapheneOS). It will seemingly change countries or profiles mid day or overnight without a restart.
It is super annoying and causes sites I use to send me through all the verifications again / generate new tokens..
I have not witnessed this on Linux via flatpak but will keep an eye out..
Fair warning, my personal machines run linux so I’m not able to test this.
You could use a script like the one listed here to notify you of IP address changes:
https://superuser.com/a/1892075
Edit: I use something like this with a pushover notification to let me know when my external IP address changes
Edit2: or this: https://woodward.digital/public-ip-address-changes-alert-powershell/
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
3 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.
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