Subj : Re: VPN - LINUX and MIS
To   : The Godfather
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Mon Oct 23 2023 09:10:27

On 21 Oct 2023, The Godfather said the following...
 
 TG> Hey Pro's!
 TG> 
 TG> So apparently MIS has not been answering on my BBS for about a month
 TG> which as soon as I disconnected my VPN *boom* it's working again.
 TG> 
 TG> Am I losing it or can I not use VPN to surf the web on the same computer
 TG> as the BBS?  OR ..... is there a setting I maybe have within the VPN
 TG> that would cause this?  I don't recall this being an issue in the past,
 TG> BUT HEY it sure explains why nobody had been calling :)
 TG> 

When you ran the vpn up, it made all your internet bound traffic to be routed to a different end point and appear to be from a different IP, that IP wouldn't be associated with your domain therefore nothing would come through to your computer from outside as your vpn blocks traffic coming in while connected.

You might be able to do split tunneling, depending on the vpn provider, what that means is you can choose which applications have the traffic going through the tunnel, and which applications you don't. I have windscribe vpn that I sometimes use, and that does split tunneling, so you can choose your browser to go through the vpn but leave other stuff untouched, you can also do it in reverse, so everything goes through the tunnel except certain apps, this would be what I would do in your case. everything but mystic.

In honesty I wouldn't run the BBS on the same computer I use as a daily workhorse, but if you do you are limited to what you can and can't do with your daily computer if the BBS runs on it also.

Hope this helps

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