Nordvpn local network addresses not reachable when connected

Question

I'm using nordvpn cli on ubuntu for quite a while, but since a few days, when I'm trying to reach any other client in my local network, I'm getting e.g. the following problem:

$ ping 192.168.178.1
PING 192.168.178.1 (192.168.178.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
ping: sendmsg: Operation not permitted

where 192.168.178.1 is my router. When I disconnect from nordvpn, I can reach other clients again.

I already read about similar problems being related to the nordvpn killswitch, but it is disabled and I also tried to enable and then to disable it. I also tried to disable the ufw, and reinstalled nordvpn but that didn't help either.

As it might be helpful, here my nordvpn settings:

$ nordvpn settings
Technology: OpenVPN
Protocol: UDP
Kill Switch: disabled
CyberSec: disabled
Obfuscate: disabled
Notify: enabled
Auto-connect: disabled
DNS: disabled

Might be that it's something quite stupid or easy to resolve, but I'm struggling with that for a few days now.

Thanks for your help :)

Solution 1

Same same. I thought maybe it was a bug in the app, but 3.8.5 is the same.

My settings (which worked several nordvpn app versions ago):

Technology: NordLynx
Kill Switch: disabled
CyberSec: disabled
Notify: enabled
Auto-connect: enabled
DNS: 1.0.0.1, 1.1.1.1

Resolution (Later)

Hahaha! Got it! Whitelist your internal. Mine is 192.168.2.xxx, adjust yours accordingly.

nordvpn whitelist add subnet 192.168.2.0/24

Solution 2

Whitelisting my subnets only allowed me to make connections using IP addresses. I'm lazy and prefer hostnames. So I had to add my DNS server (my router) to the Nordvpn configuration. My router is at 192.168.50.1. So I used the command nordvpn set dns 192.168.50.1

Comments

[ShEepCr3eper]

Great, that really worked! Thank you. Though I'm wondering that it worked before and they changed it without saying something...

[Leathan]

wow so much nonsense about this on searches and only 2 upvotes on the correct answer! not many people running nord and sshing around on linux eh :( Thanks so much!! Wish they did this automatically since its kind of expected ..

[DevShot]

Thank you, you're the man!