I am not sure about your issue without VPN, but there has been a bit of discussion here regarding NordVPN client and disconnects, There is a solution involving switching to systemd-resolved and installing wireguard-tools. The issue with Nord is in the following posts:
Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆
NordVPN on Manjaro
From my notepad https://root.nix.dk/en/network-notes/nordvpn-on-arch-based-distribution
What this topic is not
This is not a topic on installing NordVPN
But what is it
It is a topic on setting up Manjaro to ensure the nameserver settings is restored on disconnecting NordVPN and a topic describing how I did the troubleshooting.
Assumptions and prerequisite
You have installed nordvpn using the custom package nordvpn-bin
You have added yourself to the gro…
Yep and my cronjob is set to three hours??? I have gone back to 3.12.0 and though it is not perfect, it is better than the current. When disconnecting with the new version, the disconnect message is different and cryptic, too. I don’t see where to report bugs on their site either. Where can the daemon logs be found?
Please follow-up and give your feedback on the wireguard-tools/systemd-resolved workaround, if you give it a try.