EarthVPN responded to my query and apparently they assign google automatically anyway so my adding to the VPN config should have made no difference. Using DNS through the VPN isn't secure but differentiating my queries from everyone else using the same server would be hard, hide in the crowd. Besides, I don't expect perfect privacy & anonymity yet, I'm still learning. When I have correct config if I want to go anon I'll bin
everything and start from scratch. You cannot migrate to anonymous, just ask MalwareTech.
I added another VPN, this time PPTP and that works. I will persist with OpenVPN as it is audited.
This makes the shoulders sink:
At one stage, I had name resolution working at the command line but not in Firefox.
So even if I ask at the command line what DNS is assigned it doesn't necessarily apply to all processes. Terrific :-(
In a command prompt started fresh each time:
On the Hotel wifi the hotels gateway is in resolv.conf
On the Hotel wifi + working PPTP VPN the hotels gateway is in resolv.conf
On the Hotel wifi + non working OpenVPN without DNS settings in the Network Manager config earthvpn.com then the hotels gateway are in resolv.conf
On the Hotel wifi + non working OpenVPN with DNS settings in the Network Manager config earthvpn.com then the hotels gateway are in resolv.conf
Is there any way to tell from the outside what DNS I'm using? By 'from the outside' I mean in the same manner that I can ask ip2location.com what my ip is and thus where it thinks I am.