Hello! I’m trying to set up qbittorrent and gluetun using docker compose on my home server, using the free account of ProtonVPN.
on some posts I see that ports 8080, 6881 and 6881/UDP are open in gluetun. in the guide I followed instead only port 8080 is exposed. So I exposed port 8080 and it is not working. I launched the torrent of endeavourOS iso image (that my laptop (with the same vpn) downloads in a few minutes with plenty of peers and seeds at about 4Mb/s), and it downloaded at an EXTREME low speed (a few B/s) for a few seconds, and then got stuck at stalled. When it is stalled, the qbittorrent container has no internet access (ping linux.org fails).
So my questions are:
- Which ports do I need to open on gluetun? if I open 6881 wouldn’t my IP be exposed bypassing gluetun?
- What’s wrong with my setup? Why is internet connection so slow when there is, and why does it go away so often?
- Is this configuration secure? in case of gluetun fail, would my IP be leaked?
here’s the two docker-compose.yml files:
version: "3"
services:
gluetun:
image: qmcgaw/gluetun
container_name: gluetun
cap_add:
- NET_ADMIN
environment:
- VPN_SERVICE_PROVIDER=protonvpn
- OPENVPN_USER=MYUSERHERE
- OPENVPN_PASSWORD=MYPASSWORDHERE
- SERVER_COUNTRIES=Netherlands
- FREE_ONLY=on
volumes:
- ~/docker/gluetun/gluetun:/gluetun
ports:
- 8080:8080 # qBittorrent
restart: unless-stopped
and
version: "3"
services:
qbittorrent:
image: linuxserver/qbittorrent:latest
container_name: qbittorrent
environment:
- PUID=1000
- PGID=1000
- TZ=Europe/Rome
- WEBUI_PORT=8080
volumes:
- ~/docker/qbittorrent/config:/config
- ~/docker/qbittorrent/downloads:/downloads
network_mode: "container:gluetun"
#ports:
# - 8080:8080
# - 6881:6881
# - 6881:6881/udp
restart: unless-stopped
and here’s some logs:
024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO Settings summary:
├── VPN settings:
| ├── VPN provider settings:
| | ├── Name: protonvpn
| | └── Server selection settings:
| | ├── VPN type: openvpn
| | ├── Countries: netherlands
| | ├── Free only servers: yes
| | └── OpenVPN server selection settings:
| | └── Protocol: UDP
| └── OpenVPN settings:
| ├── OpenVPN version: 2.5
| ├── User: [set]
| ├── Password: fL...BK
| ├── Network interface: tun0
| ├── Run OpenVPN as: root
| └── Verbosity level: 1
├── DNS settings:
| ├── Keep existing nameserver(s): no
| ├── DNS server address to use: 127.0.0.1
| └── DNS over TLS settings:
| ├── Enabled: yes
| ├── Update period: every 24h0m0s
| ├── Unbound settings:
| | ├── Authoritative servers:
| | | └── cloudflare
| | ├── Caching: yes
| | ├── IPv6: no
| | ├── Verbosity level: 1
| | ├── Verbosity details level: 0
| | ├── Validation log level: 0
| | ├── System user: root
| | └── Allowed networks:
| | ├── 0.0.0.0/0
| | └── ::/0
| └── DNS filtering settings:
| ├── Block malicious: yes
| ├── Block ads: no
| ├── Block surveillance: no
| └── Blocked IP networks:
| ├── 127.0.0.1/8
| ├── 10.0.0.0/8
| ├── 172.16.0.0/12
| ├── 192.168.0.0/16
| ├── 169.254.0.0/16
| ├── ::1/128
| ├── fc00::/7
| ├── fe80::/10
| ├── ::ffff:127.0.0.1/104
| ├── ::ffff:10.0.0.0/104
| ├── ::ffff:169.254.0.0/112
| ├── ::ffff:172.16.0.0/108
| └── ::ffff:192.168.0.0/112
├── Firewall settings:
| └── Enabled: yes
├── Log settings:
| └── Log level: INFO
├── Health settings:
| ├── Server listening address: 127.0.0.1:9999
| ├── Target address: cloudflare.com:443
| ├── Duration to wait after success: 5s
| ├── Read header timeout: 100ms
| ├── Read timeout: 500ms
| └── VPN wait durations:
| ├── Initial duration: 6s
| └── Additional duration: 5s
├── Shadowsocks server settings:
| └── Enabled: no
├── HTTP proxy settings:
| └── Enabled: no
├── Control server settings:
| ├── Listening address: :8000
| └── Logging: yes
├── OS Alpine settings:
| ├── Process UID: 1000
| └── Process GID: 1000
├── Public IP settings:
| ├── Fetching: every 12h0m0s
| └── IP file path: /tmp/gluetun/ip
└── Version settings:
└── Enabled: yes
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [routing] default route found: interface eth0, gateway 172.29.0.1, assigned IP 172.29.0.2 and family v4
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [routing] adding route for 0.0.0.0/0
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [firewall] setting allowed subnets...
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [routing] default route found: interface eth0, gateway 172.29.0.1, assigned IP 172.29.0.2 and family v4
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO TUN device is not available: open /dev/net/tun: no such file or directory; creating it...
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [dns] using plaintext DNS at address 1.1.1.1
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [http server] http server listening on [::]:8000
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [healthcheck] listening on 127.0.0.1:9999
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection...
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [openvpn] OpenVPN 2.5.8 x86_64-alpine-linux-musl [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Nov 2 2022
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [openvpn] library versions: OpenSSL 3.1.4 24 Oct 2023, LZO 2.10
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [openvpn] TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]192.40.57.231:1194
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [openvpn] UDP link local: (not bound)
2024-01-22T19:07:15Z INFO [openvpn] UDP link remote: [AF_INET]192.40.57.231:1194
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [healthcheck] program has been unhealthy for 6s: restarting VPN (see https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md)
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [vpn] stopping
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [vpn] starting
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection...
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [openvpn] OpenVPN 2.5.8 x86_64-alpine-linux-musl [SSL (OpenSSL)] [LZO] [LZ4] [EPOLL] [MH/PKTINFO] [AEAD] built on Nov 2 2022
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [openvpn] library versions: OpenSSL 3.1.4 24 Oct 2023, LZO 2.10
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [openvpn] TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]185.107.56.235:1194
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [openvpn] UDP link local: (not bound)
2024-01-22T19:07:21Z INFO [openvpn] UDP link remote: [AF_INET]185.107.56.235:1194
2024-01-22T19:07:22Z WARN [openvpn] 'link-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='link-mtu 1633', remote='link-mtu 1634'
2024-01-22T19:07:22Z WARN [openvpn] 'tun-mtu' is used inconsistently, local='tun-mtu 1532', remote='tun-mtu 1500'
2024-01-22T19:07:22Z WARN [openvpn] 'comp-lzo' is present in remote config but missing in local config, remote='comp-lzo'
2024-01-22T19:07:22Z INFO [openvpn] [node-nl-164.protonvpn.net] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]185.107.56.235:1194
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] setsockopt TCP_NODELAY=1 failed
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 10.25.0.5/16
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] UID set to nonrootuser
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [openvpn] Initialization Sequence Completed
2024-01-22T19:07:23Z INFO [dns] downloading DNS over TLS cryptographic files
2024-01-22T19:07:24Z INFO [healthcheck] healthy!
2024-01-22T19:07:24Z INFO [dns] downloading hostnames and IP block lists
2024-01-22T19:07:32Z INFO [healthcheck] unhealthy: dialing: dial tcp4: lookup cloudflare.com: i/o timeout
2024-01-22T19:07:32Z INFO [dns] init module 0: validator
2024-01-22T19:07:32Z INFO [dns] init module 1: iterator
2024-01-22T19:07:32Z INFO [dns] start of service (unbound 1.17.1).
2024-01-22T19:07:33Z INFO [dns] generate keytag query _ta-4a5c-4f66. NULL IN
2024-01-22T19:07:33Z INFO [healthcheck] healthy!
2024-01-22T19:07:33Z INFO [dns] ready
2024-01-22T19:07:33Z INFO [vpn] You are running on the bleeding edge of latest!
2024-01-22T19:07:33Z INFO [ip getter] Public IP address is 185.107.56.251 (Netherlands, North Holland, Amsterdam)
Yes, I couldn’t even use whoogle with the free tier as I got ratelimited on normal search queries.
Needless to say that many ppl share the same (proton vpn IP) on the free tier.
oof this is unfortunate. There is no VPN providers providing free unlimited traffic I guess
Why would there be? They need to make money to stay afloat.
Cloudflare warp VPN does that.
Uhm… What’s the deal?
They want you to install their client, but it’s wireguard under the hood, so you can make it work with glutun.
You need to generate a wireguard config file with this tool: https://github.com/ViRb3/wgcf
There is a bug with gluten which make it not accept nameservers for a custom wireguard config: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/issues/2042
So you will need to resolve the IP yourself.
Personally, I set it up through TrueNAS, and I didn’t managed to make it work with a file config, so I passed everything through environment variables.
Use this wiki if you are lost: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/setup/providers/custom.md#wireguard
It output in USA for me, it torrent with a very decent speed, 150-200/Mbps.
And yes, it’s free.
woah this is very nice! thanks, I’ll try to make it work!
Hi! I tried to configure it as you suggested:
wgcf-profile.confHowever, it is stuck in a loop trying to authenticate:
2024-01-24T09:59:48Z INFO [vpn] starting 2024-01-24T09:59:48Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection... 2024-01-24T09:59:48Z INFO [wireguard] Using available kernelspace implementation 2024-01-24T09:59:48Z INFO [wireguard] Connecting to 162.159.192.1:2480 2024-01-24T09:59:48Z INFO [wireguard] Wireguard setup is complete. Note Wireguard is a silent protocol and it may or may not work, without giving any error message. Typically i/o timeout errors indicate the Wireguard connection is not working. 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [healthcheck] program has been unhealthy for 1m21s: restarting VPN (see https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md) 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [vpn] stopping 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [vpn] starting 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection... 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [wireguard] Using available kernelspace implementation 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [wireguard] Connecting to 162.159.192.1:2480 2024-01-24T10:01:11Z INFO [wireguard] Wireguard setup is complete. Note Wireguard is a silent protocol and it may or may not work, without giving any error message. Typically i/o timeout errors indicate the Wireguard connection is not working. 2024-01-24T10:01:19Z INFO [dns] downloading DNS over TLS cryptographic files 2024-01-24T10:01:34Z WARN [dns] cannot update files: Get "https://www.internic.net/domain/named.root": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers) 2024-01-24T10:01:34Z INFO [dns] attempting restart in 10m40s 2024-01-24T10:01:47Z ERROR [ip getter] Get "https://ipinfo.io/": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers) - retrying in 10m40s 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [healthcheck] program has been unhealthy for 1m26s: restarting VPN (see https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md) 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [vpn] stopping 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [vpn] starting 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection... 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [wireguard] Using available kernelspace implementation 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [wireguard] Connecting to 162.159.192.1:2480 2024-01-24T10:02:38Z INFO [wireguard] Wireguard setup is complete. Note Wireguard is a silent protocol and it may or may not work, without giving any error message. Typically i/o timeout errors indicate the Wireguard connection is not working. 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [healthcheck] program has been unhealthy for 1m31s: restarting VPN (see https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun-wiki/blob/main/faq/healthcheck.md) 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [vpn] stopping 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [vpn] starting 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [firewall] allowing VPN connection... 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [wireguard] Using available kernelspace implementation 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [wireguard] Connecting to 162.159.192.1:2480 2024-01-24T10:04:09Z INFO [wireguard] Wireguard setup is complete. Note Wireguard is a silent protocol and it may or may not work, without giving any error message. Typically i/o timeout errors indicate the Wireguard connection is not working.Is my configuration correct or am I missing something?
thank you very very much in advance!
Which command did you write to get the config file ? I remember that I did a mistake on it.
Configuration looks correct, it doesnt work ?
Mind that the ipinfo also fails on my end, but torrenting works.
There are websites to test if your torrent is using a VPN or not.
Their very existence in our capitalistic market would heavily raise my suspicions as to what they do with my traffic not to be immediately running at a loss.