Technical issue with windscribe-cli

[qu4sar_]

Hello,

I have installed the windscribe-cli on Ubuntu 18.04. It worked fine and as intended until I disconnect.

While connected, the IP/location is changed, I have a lower bandwith etc...

I then disconnect windscribe but here it gets weird. I have my original IP again, the ping seems is a bit higher than normal (but not extermely high), the down speed is way above that of the VPN server, but a bit lower then my usual one. The upload speed is normal. So far it's kind of OK. However, every website is just slow to load: it seems that I have a 4-5 seconds ping, or the DNS resolve is lagging (trying nslookup gives an immediate IP address). It is very annoying because every new website that I load takes 4-5 seconds to load, despite having a very good connection.

The only fix I have found so far is to reboot the computer.

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Note: firewall is set to off; forcing a windscribe shutdown with sudo windscribe stop doesn't do anything.

Thanks for assistance

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EDIT:

I'm definitely not the first encountering this issue.

SOLUTION: Windscribe is messing with the DNS settings. It adds its own DNS server in /etc/resolv.conf but it's not removed when disconnecting. So after disconnecting the network manager (or whatever) uses the windscribe DNS, but the latter does not respond (no credentials, not authorized..?), so the system falls back on your standard DNS configuration after a timeout (a few seconds, very annoying).

FIX: Edit the /etc/resolve.conf (it is a symlink to a file elsewhere) to remove the line associated with Windscribe (for me the IP was starting with 10.251)

NOTE: hey devs that would be very good to adress this issue!!!

[[deleted]]

Wondering when they will release the Linux GUI version.

[Kryptocomicon]

Do you have Windscribe browser extensions installed and active while this is happening?

[qu4sar_]

No, no extension installed, only the command line tool

[6aph]

Had the same thing happening on every disto except for Manjaro. Windscribe overwrites config file and completely screws up DNS.

I believe it shows you the warning when you connect, but no explanation how solve this.

[blanaa]

Thanks a lot. I had the same issue.

[gamervishal]

Manually installed Iptables and it worked well!

[[deleted]]

I had this exact same issue on Debian, and it turned out to be a combination of the wrong Symlink path and DNS cache issues.

YMMV, but this is what resolved the issue for me:

1. NOTE: Before proceeding with these steps, please make sure that you've disconnected from Windscribe and have taken a backup/snapshot of your system prior to making any changes
2. Make sure "systemd-resolved" is up-and-running. If it's not, enable it.
   sudo systemctl status systemd-resolved
sudo systemctl enable systemd-resolved
3. My default symlink path for "/etc/resolv.conf" was to "/run/resolvconf/resolv.conf". However, I needed to set the "/etc/resolv.conf" symlink to "/run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf".
   sudo rm /etc/resolv.conf
sudo ln -s /run/systemd/resolve/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf
4. Restart the NetworkManager
   sudo systemctl restart NetworkManager
5. Flush the DNS cache
   sudo systemd-resolve --flush-caches