Thank you for your assist. I found the underlying issue to be with the DNS from the domain provider. I switched to Cloudflare DNS and now it works flawlessly.

I’ve gone through their automatic setup and followed the youtube tutorial from Lawrence Systems. I entered all the required information for the setup correctly (apart from the email maybe). The tutor got his dashboard page hosted with https properly enabled with no additional configuration and I expected mine to work the same. I’ve tried to regenerate the certificates according to the official docs, but I still get the same result. I honestly don’t know where else the problem could’ve arised. As much as I hate it, I think I’ll have to go through the logs after all.

This actually worked! I’ve disabled the ‘Block connection without VPN’ and ‘Always-on VPN’ options and my phone is finally able to access other devices.

I’ve never tried this approach before as my computers were able to connect to each other even with kill switch enabled on both of them, making me assume the problem didn’t lie here, but you proved me otherwise.

I’m somewhat hesitant to leave the configuration like this, but I guess it’s worth it given the circumstances. Thank you very much for your advice!

Split tunneling is only available for paid plans. Free tier users can only choose between having their entire traffic go through the VPN or none at all.

I don’t mind being without split tunneling. My grudge lies in not being able to access other computers and their services on the same network.