Add proxy DNS to openvpn .conf file

connectman76

Hi guys,

I have a question where I can find no answer for on any other forum.
I need someone to explain in in step by step instructions

If there is anybody out there, I am happy with your tips.
What I want to do? It is like this:

I have a vpn connection to connect to a certain online tv website.
This site only accepts my connection when I open a firefox web browser
and I config my vpn's proxy address in the connection proxy settings of firefox.

When I configure this :
-Manual proxy configuration

- sock host: 10..x.x.x with port 1080.
-select:socksv5
-select: proxy DNS when using socks v5

Only then it works and i can watch on the site. If i skip the button for "proxy DNS when using socks v5"
It does not work.

My question:

I use another device with a linux o.s. based on kodi which has not much settings has like the firefox app has.
I tried all of the kodi options, no results. I think those only work without vpn.

Still I would like to have the same functionality as described above.
I can't manage it. What I try to do is to configure it in an openvpn connection .conf file.

I found something at another site that was described as: push "dhcp-option DNS (ip)"
An extra parameter meant to add to the openvpn.conf file to have proxy dns functionality...
Other sides describe it doesn't work for openvpn 2.4.0, others claim the parameter only works in combination with a windows OSl.
And I also found an answer where people instructed push "dhcp-option DNS (ip)" only works
when up and down scripts in linux are used:

up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf

Well, I tried a couple of these combinations , but i can't get
it working. When I use a terminal nslookup command after I connect I see my internet providers DNS
not the DNS proxy of my vpn providers'....

How do i configure my .conf file so, that after a vpn connection it will have DNS proxy connection by default? Is that possible?
If not is there a workaround without changing anything in my router?
The tv device should work independent.

thanks!