How to activate Nord VPN using Kali Linux WSL

When having a Windows machine and you wish to execute terminal commands you can use WSL but by default if you use Nord VPN your internet connection won’t work on the WSL using Kali Linux.

So to configure your WSL Kali Linux you might need to follow the steps and restart your VM few times, so let’s start.

Step 1

The first thing we need to do is create this file called wsl.conf usually is inexistant but if you already have just edit the file adding the config.

$sudo nano /etc/wsl.conf

Add this config for your network resolve: [network] generateResolvConf = false Save the file and make sure the file is on the folder with the config you just added.

Step 2

Now we are going to configure the resolve with the nameserver.

$ sudo nano /etc/resolv.conf

Add the nameserver:

nameserver 8.8.8.8

Step 3

WSL2 has a bug and keeps deleting the resolv.conf file regardless, to avoid that we can run a command that makes the file immutable. $ sudo chattr +i /etc/resolv.conf

Using **PowerShell** we should now restart wsl wsl --shutdown wsl