Connecting to VPN Gate using Openvpn

I tried to connect to one of the open VPN server in using openvpn as a client. So what I did:

• download one of the ovpn files from one of the servers

• execute:

  sudo openvpn vpngateconfig.ovpn

• it last massage spouted:

  Initialization Sequence Completed

However, when I tried to ping any address across the web, it said

Temporary failure in name resolution

I tried to use different servers, but none of them worked. How to troubleshoot this? BTW, I'm using Ubuntu 18.10

regards

Edit:

~$ ping 8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=120 time=22.7 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=120 time=21.4 ms
~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# This file is managed by man:systemd-resolved(8). Do not edit.
#
# This is a dynamic resolv.conf file for connecting local clients to the
# internal DNS stub resolver of systemd-resolved. This file lists all
# configured search domains.
#
# Run "resolvectl status" to see details about the uplink DNS servers
# currently in use.
#
# Third party programs must not access this file directly, but only through the
# symlink at /etc/resolv.conf. To manage man:resolv.conf(5) in a different way,
# replace this symlink by a static file or a different symlink.
#
# See man:systemd-resolved.service(8) for details about the supported modes of
# operation for /etc/resolv.conf.
nameserver 127.0.0.53
~$ ps auxc | grep -i dns
etherea+ 5292 0.0 0.0 340736 2988 ? Sl 15:11 0:03 gvfsd-dnssd
~$ ps auxc | grep -i resolv
systemd+ 735 0.0 0.0 55932 4000 ? Ss 14:43 0:04 systemd-resolve

This happened when either VPN was up or down.

1 Answer

I found a nice GUI client that does all the work, from listing available VPNgate servers, to connect to one of the:

Gvpngate