Comment on Gluetun: The Little VPN Client That Could

cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• asbestos@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How do you handle the forwarded port change on every reconnect and updating it in qbt?

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  • Confused_Emus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s another nifty little container called qbittorrent-natmap that will take care of that for you.

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  • cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    gluetun bundles a control server on port 8000 which you can query for the port number (don’t worry about openvpn being in the url path, it still works with Wireguard). In my bash script (running on the host system), I use curl to retrieve the forwarded port number and then do a POST with that data to the API of my qbt client which is running in another container on port 8080.

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• anzo@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  There’s a reason why most providers don’t allow that feature anymore. It’s said that port forwarding is a security risk. Also, qBitTorrent works just fine without it.

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  • cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    There’s a reason why most providers don’t allow that feature anymore

    Yes, cheese pizza

    It’s said that port forwarding is a security risk

    Says who? Assuming a fully patched system/client and a properly configured firewall/network, I’d love to hear more about these “risks”.

    Also, qBitTorrent works just fine without it.

    Only if you don’t care about seeding

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