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    OpenVPN Not Connecting - Unable To Contact Daemon

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      panzerscope
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      Good news is that it is not sorted and I have the devices split over the VPN and WAN as needed.

      Only issue I am having ensuring that the VPN us using the VPN DNS servers. I have the VPN client set to "Pull DNS", however when doing the leak test, it is showing that Cloudflare DNS is being used, which is not too surprising as I use Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) as my remote DNS server.

      That being said, earlier in this topic, we created a rule to redirect my VPN clients to 1.1.1.1 as shown below.

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      So I altered this to the DNS of the VPN provider (5.254.106.2), unfortunately after doing that I cannot get websites to resolve for clients on the VPN. I have confirmed I can ping the VPN DNS servers (When connected/disconnected from VPN), so all is well on that end.

      While possibly completely unrelated, I went into the DNS settings and input the DNS servers for the VPN and allocated the VPN DNS entries to use the VPN Gateway as per the below screenshot.

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      Any suggestions ?

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