I managed to get OpenVPN working from within Network-Manager using the following setup
1. Setup your OpenVPN connection in Network Manager using "Network Connections / Add / OpenVPN" 2. Create a new LAN/WLAN connection e.g. "LAN VPN" 3. In "General" Tab set "automatically connect to VPN" and select the OpenVPN entry 4. In "IPv4" tab set "DHCP Address only" and set DNS address of the VPN provider manually 5. Save and test You should be able to select "LAN VPN" connection which will kick-off the OpenVPN which will then make use of the DNS entry that is manually provided. So you indirectly activate the VPN connection which also gives you no DNS leaks. PS: In /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf I had to comment out the dns=dnsmasq entry. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to network-manager in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1211110 Title: network manager openvpn dns push data not updating system DNS addresses Status in network-manager package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in openvpn package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: [Triage Notes] This bug can no longer make progress. Please see comment 50 for details and further instructions. [Original Description] When IPv4 Method is set to Automatic VPN, DNS address recieved from OpenVPN server do not update resolv.conf. This can be achieved when using a standard openvpn config file by adding the lines: script-security 2 up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf In Network-manager there seems to be no option to run connection specific scripts and the DNS data from the server is ignored. Ubuntu 13.04 Network-manager 0.9.8.0-0ubuntu6 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1211110/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
