Comment on What's gluetun?
rikudou@lemmings.world 2 weeks ago
Gluetun can connect to multitude of VPNs, but most importantly it can be used to force other containers to use only the gluetun network, meaning if you disconnect from VPN for whatever reason, the other containers don’t suddenly send data over non-VPN network.
So if you’re torrenting and use gluetun to provide internet to the qBittorrent container, you won’t accidentally reveal your real IP if your provider’s server goes down for a few seconds.
Mora@pawb.social 1 week ago
Is that 100% certain? I think I can recall stories from 15 years ago, where torrent clients had kill switches and they still leaked data.
rikudou@lemmings.world 1 week ago
That really depends on the implementation. In the case of gluetun, yes, no data can leak.
In Linux, by interface binding, no data can leak as well. No idea how Windows network stack is implemented.