New Install - NordVPN Causes Problems

VPN
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Topic says it all. I’m having issues with some apps after a clean install of Arch. I’m using NetworkManager because in the past, I’ve found things I don’t like about networkd or resolved with regards to NordVPN (the VPN in question).

It seems to be related to DNS - that’s about all I can gather because during the process of fetching yay and building it with makepkg -si - the build failed because it could resolve some GitHub location. Turning the VPN off temporarily solved this. As did adding 1.1.1.1 to NetworkManager. However, the 1.1.1.1 fix does not work for XIVLauncher. No matter what I do, it can’t contact the Square Enix servers to verify the checksums of the files (what I presume it’s doing?)

Pic: https://imgur.com/a/zuAiSnV

I’m using Nordvpn-bin from AUR - which I used for 2 years or something and never had a single issue with until today.

What I am using:

Network Manager

sd-networkd is masked/disabled/off

sd-resolved is disabled/off

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NordVPN discontinued their legacy API three days ago. Not sure who maintains the AUR package, if it needs to be updated, or even if it is affected at all… My homerolled openvpn script wasn’t working for a day or two, but now appears to working fine.

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I manage my wireguard vpn with the wireguard-tools wg-quick command, after downloading the config files from my provider. Works well enough.

Good day.

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Turns out it was systemd-resolved. I forgot to make the symlink to /etc/resolv.conf. Also I thought I disabled it but I didn’t? IDK …it’s hard being a moron.