Strange behaviour with VPN connection

[DMBoot]

I am running 380.68_4 on a RT-N66U and connecting to IP Vanish.

My IPTV will not work after a router reboot unless I do the following.

1. Turn the vpn off (servive state to OFF)

2. Change IPTV channel - I can view the channel

3. Turn the vpn on (servive state to ON) and allow it to connect

Just turn the VPN off then on again does not work.

I can now change channels and view them all. I can now see the traffic going up on the VPN Status page.

Any thoughts or idea on what I may have done wrong to have to do this every time?

 

[DMBoot]

UPDATE

Setting the router to use Google's DNS servers (8.8.8.8 & 8.8.4.4) seems to have resolved the issue.

Not sure why though?

 

[RMerlin]

Make sure you have DNS mode set to "Exclusive" on your OpenVPN client page. Your tunnel might be preventing your ISP DNS from working.

 

[DMBoot]

Cheers. Yes, I had and still have that set to Exclusive.

It seems it was all down to which VPN server I chose to connect to.

Either the speeds from the IPVanich server wasn't up to the task, or that server is blocked by the IPTV provider. I don't know which, but when I find a server that works, then my "issues" disappear.