Internet is not working after connecting to VPN. Creating a new device resolves the issue. WHY?

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Setup:

  1. ufw: inactive
  2. firezone (docker)
  3. ubuntu machine on AWS
  4. wireguard client on macOS (Intel)

I have been using firezone from last few weeks. It was working fine for me so far.

Today, I faced an issue.

When I connected to the VPN, the internet stopped working and also I was not able to access my VPC resources from AWS.

I had never faced this issue.

I resolved this issue by creating a new device in firezone web portal and imported the config file in wireguard client. It started working as it was working before. no issues were faced.

Question: why was not my old device (config file) working? adding a new device everytime does not seem to be a feasible solution

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We were running into this recently. We discovered that the Wireguard GUI client ends up dropping all Internet traffic if DNS servers aren’t defined. It was working fine with wg-quick from the CLI.

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