If you go to, you may notice DNS servers from your ISP appearing on that list. This way, your Internet Service Provider (ISP) or users on your local network cannot capture and read these queries to see what sites you are visiting. In an optimal setup, a DNS query should first get encrypted on your local computer and then sent to your VPN server. Fix DNS LeaksĪ DNS query, explained in a condensed and oversimplified form, is simply your computer asking a server 'What is the IP address of ?'. The dialog quickly closes when the connection is successful but you can reopen it by right-clicking on the system tray icon and selecting Show Status. A dialog will open showing some status messages, as the OpenVPN server and client communicate. Now, when you right-click on the tray icon, the menu will have additional items available:įrom the menu mentioned earlier, click on Connect. A dialog should appear, mentioning that the file has been imported successfully. Right-click on the OpenVPN system tray icon and select Import file.:īrowse to the location where you saved your '.ovpn' profile and import it.

In some cases, this icon may be automatically hidden, but you can click on the arrow pointing up ^ to show the hidden icons. The icon you should look for has been highlighted in yellow in the following picture: But actually, the utility opens in the background and adds an icon to the taskbar system tray, in the bottom-right corner. The result of this action may confuse some users because nothing seems to happen after launching the application.

In the 'Choose Components' step, leave the default selections as they are:Īfter you've finished installing the OpenVPN GUI client, open the program, either by double clicking on the icon that has been added to the desktop, or by pressing the Windows logo key to bring up the Start Menu, and then typing 'openvpn'. The web address, aspect of the page or links may change in the future, so look for anything mentioning an 'installer' or 'setup', and a file that ends with '.exe', pertaining to the OpenVPN GUI or client.Īfter you download the executable file, run the installer: At the moment of writing the tutorial, they looked like this: Scroll down until you find the download links. Therefore, we will learn how to install and configure the OpenVPN GUI client on a computer running the Windows 10 operating system. To create an encrypted tunnel between the local machine and the remote server we will also need a VPN client. In a previous tutorial, we learned how to create an OpenVPN server on an Alibaba ECS instance.

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