I can connect to networks, but cannot reach the internet

[ricklinux]

@Si-ann_music

…I’m just a dumbass, I launched windscribe, turned it off and back on again, and now it works…

BUT IT WORKS NOW

OMG? Really? You have a VPN?

@anon93652015

You said you don’t have one

[_Six]

I think ddnn is referring to these messages earlier in the thread.

@Bink

Do you have a VPN installed, and/or have you worked on any firewall and network settings so far not mentioned?

@Si-ann_music

I don’t have a vpn installed, my firewall is disabled, and I have not messed with any network settings. I’m sending that output right now.

[ricklinux]

Ya maybe. But I read this.

@Si-ann_music

I’m aware, I have a vpn for that, what I mean is that it doesn’t launch at startup, and has been off the whole time I’ve been testing. I tried turning it on to check if that was the issue, and it was not.

[Bink]

@Si-ann_music

I don’t have a vpn installed

@Si-ann_music

I’m aware, I have a vpn for that, what I mean is that it doesn’t launch at startup, and has been off the whole time I’ve been testing.

Some VPN’s have a kill-switch / firewall, which when enabled, even when the VPN is not in use, including not yet started, all WAN traffic is blocked. In those circumstances, LAN traffic remains accessible as it’s not routed through the VPN interface. The purpose of this is to prevent any leaks to the WAN, outside of the VPN interface.

Windscribe details their version of this here:

Where is the Kill Switch for the Windscribe Desktop App? | Windscribe

[anon93652015]

I knew i! It just had to be the VPN or the kernel because there are countless issues people have had since the kernel update.

And I use Windscribe (in my browsers and Mullvad (systemwide), and stopped using Windscribe as my main (systemwide) VPN for both this reason, and because it was not working well with seeding my FOSS torrents for some strange reason.

That’s what all of the below was for. In case you think it’s not a problem, but it actually is:

@anon93652015

My other idea was already mentioned: VPN blocking access. One that starts up at boot. This is the kind of thing that would cause what you’re experiencing.

You said you don’t have one, but if you did, you’d need to log in and run it in a more front-facing way, like a VPN app or network manager, in order to get net access.

The most important troubleshooting tip is:
If you can’t fix it yourself, pretend you have no experience or expertise or it may get in the way of a solution. Only use your “exes” when a suggestion is straight-forward, like “update grub”, and you don’t need someone to type the actual command.