Submitted 6 months ago by imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com to selfhosted@lemmy.world
I currenly reside in a country with strict piracy rules but also have access to the internet in a country where piracy is not enforced. I want to setup a VPN and route qBittorrent’s traffic through it. The idea is to do something like this: Image
I am fresh to selfhosting and most of the time have no clue how to achieve what I want. So far I have tried Tailscale but I think it won’t work how I want it to. If it helps, I have domain name registered. Can anybody point me to the right direction?
A second option for docker is the hotio image for qbit. Has VPN support built in so you can just throw it your wg0 conf to use.
Doesn’t firejail only allow samdboxig to an actual eth or wifi interface, and not a wireguard one?
Damn you’re right, it doesn’t work out of the box like I expected. Have to admit that I never used it this way around. But it should work with --netns (network name spaces) which Wireguard uses: www.wireguard.com/netns/
Afaik it should work if you move Wireguard to it’s own namespace and than start qBittorrent with the new namespace (should even be doable without firejail).
@imetators @lemmy.dbzer0.com sorry for chasing you down that rabbit-hole, it sounded easier in my head
MiniPC runs Mint. I will check firejail. Thank you!
You can absolutely use Tailscale; your host in the unrestricted country needs to be set up as an exit node (CLI argument in Linux, or a menu option in the system tray in Windows.)
Then, your local machine needs to be set up to use that remote machine as its exit node. (tailscale up --exit-node=remote-tailnet-ip-here)
I am thinking to do this but only one thing bothers me. I want only qBittorrent to be using VPN, not the rest of the machine. Is there a way to set only qBittorrent with Tailscale?
Ah, sorry I hadn’t appreciated you were after split tunnelling… You can do this with Tailscale for services where you’re connecting to a fixed IP/FQDN, which I think rules out torrenting/P2P unfortunately.
The only way I’ve seen to pass a specific app’s traffic through Tailscale appears to be an Android exclusive feature.
If I’m wrong someone please correct me!
I cannot resist enjoyng the idea that there could be countries where piracy is enforced :)
Raspberry Pi:
MiniPC:
Points to note:
Configure them both locally and ensure you have a connection before you move the pi to another country
If you’re behind a CGNAT on one network, that’ll change some things. That network will have to be the client. (If both are behind CGNAT, you’re out of luck and cant use this - will have to be tailscale or other method)
If using a domain name make sure its always pointing to your ip (in case it’s not static)
I think if you set allowed ip as 0.0.0.0/0 on the client it’ll route all traffic.
I will look into WireGuard! Thank you!
Why can’t you just use a VPN service, locally? It’s essentially the same thing, except you don’t have to host itin country B yourself.
I have to pay for a VPN service. If I can skip paying by hosting it myself, I’d go the distance. It has been fun selfhosting services so far. I want to go deeper.
quant@leminal.space 6 months ago
Check if that raspberry pi is behind CGNAT. In that case you’ll need something else to tunnel through, like Tailscale that was mentioned elsewhere.