Centos – Initialization Sequence Completed, but terminal wont give a prompt

I just installed openvpn on a remote CentOS 7 server using the instructions in this tutorial.

The only change I made to the tutorial was to use @GarethTheRed's instructions for configuring firewalld instead of iptables, as described in Step 4 of the tutorial.

The problem is that the tutorial ends with a line of client code that causes the terminal to fail to return a command prompt (see below). How can I successfully connect via OpenVPN to my remote CentOS 7 server from my local CentOS 7 devbox?

Here are the connection steps I have tried so far:

At the end of Step 6 of the tutorial, I successfully used yum install openvpn on my devbox before typing sudo openvpn --config /path/to/client.ovpn.

The problem is that sudo openvpn --config /path/to/client.ovpn results in the terminal locking up after printing Initialization Sequence Completed.

The complete output is:

[root@localhost ~]# openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/client.ovpn
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 OpenVPN 2.3.6 x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [EPOLL] [PKCS11] [MH] [IPv6] built on Dec  2 2014
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 library versions: OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11 Feb 2013, LZO 2.06
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 WARNING: No server certificate verification method has been enabled.  See http://openvpn.net/howto.html#mitm for more info.
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 Socket Buffers: R=[212992->131072] S=[212992->131072]
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 UDPv4 link local: [undef]
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]192.96.215.22:1194
Wed Feb 11 16:46:06 2015 TLS: Initial packet from [AF_INET]192.96.215.22:1194, sid=1f320288 ab1f20d3
Wed Feb 11 16:46:07 2015 VERIFY OK: depth=1, C=US, ST=CA, L=SomeTown, O=Fort-Funston, OU=MyOrganizationalUnit, CN=serverdomain.com, name=server, emailAddress=me@somedomain.com
Wed Feb 11 16:46:07 2015 VERIFY OK: depth=0, C=US, ST=CA, L=SomeTown, O=Fort-Funston, OU=MyOrganizationalUnit, CN=server, name=server, emailAddress=me@somedomain.com
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 Data Channel Encrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 Data Channel Encrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 Data Channel Decrypt: Cipher 'BF-CBC' initialized with 128 bit key
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 Data Channel Decrypt: Using 160 bit message hash 'SHA1' for HMAC authentication
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 Control Channel: TLSv1, cipher TLSv1/SSLv3 DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, 2048 bit RSA
Wed Feb 11 16:46:08 2015 [server] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]192.96.215.22:1194
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 SENT CONTROL [server]: 'PUSH_REQUEST' (status=1)
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY,redirect-gateway def1 bypass-dhcp,dhcp-option DNS 8.8.8.8,dhcp-option DNS 8.8.4.4,route 10.8.0.1,topology net30,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.8.0.6 10.8.0.5'
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: timers and/or timeouts modified
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ifconfig/up options modified
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: route options modified
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 OPTIONS IMPORT: --ip-win32 and/or --dhcp-option options modified
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 ROUTE_GATEWAY 10.0.0.1/255.255.255.0 IFACE=p4p1 HWADDR=14:fe:b5:aa:57:60
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 TUN/TAP TX queue length set to 100
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 do_ifconfig, tt->ipv6=0, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local 10.8.0.6 peer 10.8.0.5
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip route add 192.96.215.22/32 via 10.0.0.1
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip route add 0.0.0.0/1 via 10.8.0.5
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip route add 128.0.0.0/1 via 10.8.0.5
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 /usr/sbin/ip route add 10.8.0.1/32 via 10.8.0.5
Wed Feb 11 16:46:10 2015 Initialization Sequence Completed  

At the end of this output, there is just a cursor, but no command prompt. Typing in the cursor or hitting return has no effect besides printing what you type on the terminal screen.

I read this other posting which describes a similar error and states that the problem is in the DNS configuration, but I followed the tutorial's DNS config instructions exactly. The server also handles requests for mydomain.com served up by httpd. The domain registrar has been pointing requests for mydomain.com to the ip of the server since long before adding OpenVPN. Would this cause some kind of conflict? How can I get the connection to complete?