Comment on Proxying torrent traffic to homeserver

just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• andscape@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I’m guessing what you mean is setting up port forwarding in Wireguard…

  The thing is ideally I would want all connections in and out of my homeserver’s Docker network to go through the local Caddy proxy, so the app containers are isolated. That still means having at least the local Caddy acting as a TCP proxy, even if the VPS Caddy is bypassed. If that’s too much of a hassle though I can instead just expose a port on the qBittorrent container directly to the homeserver’s localhost, and forward that with wireguard to the VPS.

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  • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Nooooo…that’s not what I’m saying.

    I’m seriously not trying to be rude here, but I went and read the rest of the thread just now. Your understanding of processes, networks and VPNs is wildly misinformed. I think you need to spend some time learning about each before you go and dismiss what everyone is telling you here, which is that you’re trying to make an overcomplicated and very inefficient VPN right now.

    Running a torrent client through a proxy doesn’t isolated a process. Especially not when you’re pushing the traffic through a local proxy. You also don’t need to forward any ports.

    Connect to the VPN, make sure your traffic is routing there properly, and you’re done. OR, you really want a proxy, you setup a proxy. You don’t need both, and neither gains you any security. If you’re concerned about process isolation, that’s a whole other thing you should read up on.

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    • andscape@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Resetting the “time since last being told I don’t know shit on the internet” back to 0 once again…

      I already have an existing and working setup used for other apps, it’s close to the one described in this blogpost. Yes, it’s complicated and inefficient, but it has reasons to be. I want to keep my qBittorrent configuration as close to this setup as reasonably possible for consistency. If your point is that it’s counterproductive to follow this setup then… fair enough. I can just route traffic from the VPS to an exposed port on the local qBittorrent container over Wireguard, but that wasn’t my preferred solution.

      Running a torrent client through a proxy doesn’t isolated a process.

      I was talking about network isolation, not process isolation.

      make sure your traffic is routing there properly

      That was pretty much what I was asking for help with.

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      • just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Well everyone here is telling you what the problem is. If you’re trying to go by every step in that blog post you linked, that’s wrong for what you’re trying to do. That’s a reverse proxy for HTTP requests.

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