Node created using PIA (VPN) appears OFFLINE

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@jeremyfritzen

Just some thoughts and propositions to make things easier:

• So far, I think you don’t need PIA. Just check in your router configuration that you can use PortForwarding.
• consider your IP as static and configure your SNO as is. After your node is online, use Uptime Robot to check your running node is still up. If your IP changes, you will receive a notification. In this case, you should use noip to set up a Dynamic DNS.

I’m pretty sure Richard is behind a CGNAT, which is why the VPN is needed. Everything looks okay from the VPN configuration.

@Richard1 Did you open the port 52780 on the windows firewall? Do you have any other firewall software running?