openVPN connects but without internet and VPN network access

[sk8-mza]

Hi,

I'm having a bit of an issue when trying to use openVPN on my computer. I'm using this to connect:

sudo openvpn --config client.ovpn

Connection seems to be successful but when I try to navigate or access resources within the VPN I get the "This site can’t be reached" error. The only thing that is loading is google.com, but nothing else.

I've been looking all around this forum (and others), but I'm not being able to fix this. Probable due to my almost zero knowledge on this matter.

I would appreciate any help provided.

Thanks!

[The Cog]

First let's have a look at your routing table and check your dns resolution - can you post the output of these commands:

ip route
host ubuntu.com
ping -c3 ubuntu.com
host cisco.com 8.8.8.8

[sk8-mza]

Well, after all the things I tried, it is now connecting and working as expected. Don't know what did the trick, but I'm glad it now works

Thanks for the help and sorry that I opened this in vain.

[sk8-mza]

First let's have a look at your routing table and check your dns resolution - can you post the output of these commands:

ip route
host ubuntu.com
ping -c3 ubuntu.com
host cisco.com 8.8.8.8

I'm back, things are broken again
These are the commands requested above, I executed them once connected to the VPN:

s3ns3i@s3ns3i:~$ ip route
0.0.0.0/1 via 172.27.232.1 dev tun0 
default via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp2s0  proto static  metric 600 
54.165.179.18 via 192.168.0.1 dev wlp2s0 
128.0.0.0/1 via 172.27.232.1 dev tun0 
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp2s0  scope link  metric 1000 
172.27.232.0/21 dev tun0  proto kernel  scope link  src 172.27.234.43 
192.168.0.0/24 dev wlp2s0  proto kernel  scope link  src 192.168.0.5  metric 600

s3ns3i@s3ns3i:~$ host ubuntu.com
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

s3ns3i@s3ns3i:~$ ping -c3 ubuntu.com
ping: unknown host ubuntu.com

s3ns3i@s3ns3i:~$ host cisco.com 8.8.8.8
Using domain server:
Name: 8.8.8.8
Address: 8.8.8.8#53
Aliases: 


cisco.com has address 72.163.4.185
cisco.com has IPv6 address 2001:420:1101:1::185
cisco.com mail is handled by 10 alln-mx-01.cisco.com.
cisco.com mail is handled by 30 aer-mx-01.cisco.com.
cisco.com mail is handled by 20 rcdn-mx-01.cisco.com.