Comment on How to check if Proton VPN has switched locations?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 days ago
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 days ago
Can I ask, how do you detect that?
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 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 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.in-addr.arpa name = xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx.reserved.example.net.