VPN connected but traffic goes directly

There are two ends to a VPN tunnel. There is the client and the server. You install and configure the client to connect to the server. If installed and configured correctly, all traffic goes through the tunnel to the server. Your local DNS settings are irrelevant if the VPN client and server are correctly configured. Public VPNs provide no security so are of no value.

napra wrote:

With no help from community except of telling me what VPN is and why it is useless I found the answer.

It seems that after latest update, networks order affects VPN as well. To make all traffic go through VPN you should move VPN network to the top of the network list in network settings window. Click gear in the left bottom and modify service order.

Well that's obvious. If it was not at the top of the list you were not using the VPN and the traffic was being routed to the network you were connected to.

My recommendation about uninstalling the VPN unless it is a private tunnel remains.

Please tell us what benefit you are getting from using a public VPN. Are you in a country that restricts Internet access and you are using the VPN to circumvent your country's laws? That is the only advantage of a public VPN. Your data sent over a public VPN is eventually routed over the open Internet just as if you had done so yourself from home.

Then you are on your own. Your use is the only possible reason for using a public VPN. We were responding under the assumption that you were using a VPN for legitimate security and privacy reasons. We were mistaken in our assumption.

VPN connected but traffic goes directly

Yes, because public VPNs are useless. They aren't private at all.

https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

Uninstall the VPN.

Unistall the VPN? Obviously it is not working. Why do you think you need a public VPN?

Uninstall the VPN and test again. The VPN is utterly useless. I don't know why you're trying so hard to keep it.

You could have solved this in minutes by simply uninstalling the useless VPN software.

Agreed. It would have been very helpful to know this information beforehand. We were both going on the assumption napra was using it only for "privacy" (which a public VPN can't, and doesn't do).