Headless Deluge-Web Setup with VPN Issues

[codingaccountant]

Hello all,

I want to start off by thanking you for taking the time to read through my post. I am currently working through a project to create a headless torrent box using Deluge on a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B using Raspbian Lite. I was able to get a majority of the setup complete. I started off by setting up OpenVPN with Private Internet Access. I am hooked up using the Netherlands connection and have this enabled to run on startup and set up a killswitch with ufw. Furthermore, I have the deluge web client working with my personal laptop as well as samba shares which is connected to a USB hard drive on the Pi. I tested the VPN using

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curl ifconfig.me

and got an IP from the Netherlands. However, when I go to check for DNS leaks using the

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ping whoami.akamai.net -c 1

I get an IP in an area close to mine from the same ISP as mine.

With all this being said, I am no expert and gladly welcome any suggestions you may have. I would think that the IP coming from the "ping" code would match the "ifconfig" code. Is there anything I can do in order to close off that DNS leak? As per the username, I am not the most skilled but I am more than willing to learn!

Thanks!

[codingaccountant]

I would sincerely appreciate any help!

[LTolledo]

start again this time without the VPN settings, you can do that later when you've confirmed operation of Deluge.

[codingaccountant]

start again this time without the VPN settings, you can do that later when you've confirmed operation of Deluge.

I sincerely appreciate the directions! I was able to get a fix on the DNS issue by changing the file properties on /etc/resolv.conf. Once I was able to edit the config file, I was able to easily fix the DNS server issue. Everything is working great for now!