I am using ProtonVPN, and have (or so I thought) set up qBittorrent to bind to the network interface that ProtonVPN is using (tun0). The connection symbol turns red if I turn off the VPN, and downloads will stop. However, when checking the torrent address on ipleak.net, it seems that this bind is not working properly - my real IP shows up after I have disconnected my VPN. I thought that there shouldn’t be any connections made when traffic is not via the tun0 interface, so that my real IP should never be known by the detection tool. Am I wrong?
I have not configured the kill switch, but perhaps I should do so?
In addition to binding, you must also turn off dht and local peer discovery.
Following up once again on this comment. These aren’t required. Can you explain why you think they are? Does it work differently on Linux or something?
Edit: welp, no follow up from this person so I’m just gonna go ahead and say his comment was absolute fake news. Cool.
