Comment on Help with Getting My Reverse Proxy to Forward the Correct IP Address
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 17 hours ago The answer was the same on both machines. A 172.17.0.X network was created as a bridge.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 16 hours ago
Hope you saw my other comment. Docker now also makes 192.168. networks in addition to 172. I’ve explained how to edit your daemon.json to stop it from doing that.
I can take a look after work, but won’t that just change the proxy’s IP listed in my logs instead of properly forwarding along the source IP address?
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 15 hours ago
Yep, you’ll have to fix that by telling your proxy to put the client IP in a header that the target app can recognize and use.
But, also, it’s a good idea to have Docker network ranges that don’t overlap your LAN. That would make me uncomfortable too.
You can also look into using IPv4 link-local addresses for Docker bridges (169.254.). Here’s an explanation: github.com/11notes/RTFM/blob/master/…/daemon.md#n…
That frees you from accidental overlaps with pretty much everything else, but it comes with its own gotcha: link-local isn’t routable. This can come back to bite you if you have an app that relies on announcing a public UDP ip:port to a peer and announces the link-local IP. When a peer tries to connect back, it won’t work. So you have to either tweak the app’s config to make sure you announce a non-169.254. IP, or put the app container on a bridge/macvlan network so it auto-detects and announces a routable IP. There’s all kinds of apps that can be affected by this kind of peer-to-peer behavior (file transfer apps, games, VoIP apps etc.)
But TBH I’ve been using link-local ranges for a while now and only got bitten once (Deluge).
I thought that’s what I was trying to do by adjusting both NPM proxy host settings as well as informing Jellyfin where to expect proxy headers from.
Does it overlap my LAN? Is 192.168.65.X not distinguishable from my defined subnets with a 24-bit mask, now that I know where they’re coming from?
And to be honest, you’ve talked past my understanding with a lot of that paragraph, so I’ll have to comb through it later tonight when I have more time. Keep in mind that all of my Docker network settings are default, so it’s a setting I’ve never dabbled with. From what I can tell from the settings it defined on its own, these containers created a 172.17.0.X address, and somehow the proxy responds with (“announces”?) a 192.168.65.1 address. Are you saying that I need to define for it an unused address that’s on my existing 10 VLAN? Somehow all of the tutorials I’ve found in the past months to set up services behind a reverse proxy never mentioned any of these gotchas with Docker and networks.