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?
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:
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.
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?
test
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.
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.
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 |
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https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun supports protonvpn
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.
I have not witnessed this on Linux via flatpak but will keep an eye out..
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