On Monday, November 19, 2018 at 12:27:40 PM UTC-5, Chris Laprise wrote: > It could be as simple as editing your /etc/resolv.conf so it contains > your VPN provider's DNS server (or other DNS server that you prefer) > instead of the Qubes internal routing addresses.
I'll give this a try, thanks. What mystifies me though is that I still have Qubes 3.2 installed on an older laptop and can confirm that on that version, none of these extra config steps are needed. I can activate and deactivate the VPN connection at will on the fly from an AppVM terminal, and it works flawlessly every time. Run openvpn and my IP address changes to the provider as expected. Hit ctrl-c to terminate the connection, and it goes back to my regular ISP-provided address as expected. Ideally I'd actually like to have this ability it switch it on and off as many times as desired during any given session, but maybe that's no longer possible in Qubes 4. Also, I tried the instructions here: https://github.com/tasket/Qubes-vpn-support/ ..and they did not work. Everything seems to go okay, but after copying/installing/linking everything as directed and then shutting down and restarting the ProxyVM, it pops up the message "Ready to start link", and then just repeatedly does that every 10 seconds or so. The link never actually goes up. Problem isn't with the provider's .ovpn config file, since it works fine on Qubes 3.2 as well as another mainstream Linux distro, with no issues at all. Not sure if it's significant, but the service "vpn-handler-openvpn" does not appear in the dropdown list of available services in the ProxyVM's settings screen, even though the template on which it is based (Debian 9) most definitely has Openvpn installed on it. I typed that service name in manually and it accepted it, but it also accepts any garbage text entered as well, so no idea whether it's actually functioning properly or not. I was also admittedly a bit confused about whether I needed to separately install the qubes-tunnel package first, but the instructions didn't seem to explicitly require it so I did not. Other than that, I followed them to the letter but cannot get the link up. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/77f93612-be60-4dbb-b8f5-f78e7af34e59%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
