Nordvpn not working or leaking

[Zorba61]

I am a newbie to linuxand have Mint cinnamon and have installed Nordvpn by following the links sent to me by Nord but i'm having problems and I din't know whether it's me or Nordvpn.It installs ok and works no problem when using the terminal and command lines but when I connect via the network manager I get the message that I have successfully connected to vpn but when I go here....https://www.dnsleaktest.com it's showing my ISP.
Any help much appreciated.

[catweazel]

https://www.dnsleaktest.com it's showing my ISP.

That's because the NordVPN .ovpn files are not leak-proof.

If you want leak-proof VPN then you need to edit the .ovpn file that you should have got from Nord, and add these values:

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block-outside-dns
script-security 2
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down-pre

Like this:

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#           _   _               ___     ______  _   _
#          | \ | | ___  _ __ __| \ \   / /  _ \| \ | |
#          |  \| |/ _ \| '__/ _` |\ \ / /| |_) |  \| |
#          | |\  | (_) | | | (_| | \ V / |  __/| |\  |
#          |_| \_|\___/|_|  \__,_|  \_/  |_|   |_| \_|
#


client
dev tun
proto udp
remote 103.231.89.30 1194
...
script-security 2
up /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down /etc/openvpn/update-resolv-conf
down-pre
...

After that, you need to delete the Network Manager connection you made and re-import the edited .ovpn. Finally, change the DNS servers on your router and reboot it:

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103.86.96.100
103.86.99.100

Once all that's done, you can try the DNS leak test again.

[Zorba61]

Cheers for that Catweazel will have a go and report back.

[Zorba61]

Tried that and it didn't work ,getting the 'connected to vpn' message when I connect and if I hover over network connection icon in the panel is says 'connected to vpn' but dns leak test still showing Plusnet as host and Isp and 3 IP addresses.

Update
First test with www.dnsleaktest.com gives above results but when I used whatismyipaddress.com( Nordvpn recommended me two use both and send them snapshots of results) the server for Nordvpn shows and nothing about plusnet?