Yes, DC is my default and never Dallas. lol And I think I follow your reasoning which I know is correct. So ... I'll read it several times until it sinks. Thanks again so very much!
Though I'm not one to sidetrack tenacity, there comes a time when fruitless become soured fruit.
Imaged with Debian 8, amazing that Gallium 0.4 is functioning, though not using the card memory, I wont be gaming so it's not important.
Dropped the openvpn config in it's place, and connected, boom, done, onward!