when nordvpn is active dhcp lease time for internet ip does not renew

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when nordvpn is active dhcp lease time for internet ip does not renew

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I have VPS with public internet ipv4 address and nordvpn client. This ip assigned automatically from vps provider dhcp server.
When I connect to nordvpn server from vps, vps ip address lease time does not renew so after after ip lease time expire vps becomes unavailable from the Internet.

Only if I manualy add dhcp server or ports to nordvpn whitelist lease time prolongation works.

Can You fix this problem?

my current environment
Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
NordVPN 3.16.5

Answer 1 · 2023-09-18T07:01:42.000Z

This is expected - no other connections than the one to the VPN server are allowed when connected, and to allow other connections they have to be whitelisted by source. Why doesn't the whitelist approach suit you?

Answer 2 · 2023-09-19T07:20:20.000Z

So Must I manually adding dhcp address/ports for my vps? Is this normally nordvpn action for dhcp?

Answer 3 · 2023-09-19T08:00:53.000Z

Yes, whitelisting either dhcp server address or dhcp port works and is the recommended approach. Another alternative would be doing nordvpn set lan-discovery on that we just introduced in the 3.16.6 release.