Pihole and OpenVPN only for DNS queries: it is not working on Ubuntu desktop client

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    • I setup a openvpn-pihole docker combo container onto my cloud VPS, which has a public static IP. Pihole must run behind VPN and I am only interested in dns queries, in other terms I don't want my internet traffic get routed by the VPN server. I read everywhere that I should comment out this line in the server.conf file (and I did do):

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