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  • Routing works on IP addresses. It is not at all concerned with DNS names. What you want can simply not be done. You need to go higher (a proxy for example) in the protocol stack, where host names are meaningful.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 10:11
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    @DanielB yes I understand routing happens on network layer, what I wan to know is that if there’s mechanism in OpenVPN which could translate domain name to IP address before the routing actually happens
    – xczzhh
    Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 10:26
  • OpenVPN is not concerned with the routing process. It receives packages only after the routing decision has been made.
    – Daniel B
    Commented Sep 23, 2018 at 10:41
  • It's a lot easier to make a network namespace with OpenVPN instead of using split tunneling. Start a browser in that namespace for all your VPN pages, start a second browser in the main namespace for all your country's websites.
    – dirkt
    Commented Mar 4, 2022 at 11:13