Sorry if this is a stupid quesiton but I was wondering how to see if the VPN was doing its job since I’d rather not get in trouble with my ISP. Thanks
I see you got the answer - there are also various sites which will let you download a torrent file to see and check the IP on their site.
I haven’t used this one, but it’s sites like this: http://checkmyip.torrentprivacy.com/
My torrent host is completely blocked at my firewall. I alllow it to do DNS queries out to my VPN provider’s DNS servers, so it can look up endpoints, and then UDP 1194-1197 is allowed for the actual OpenVPN connection. Nothing else from that host’s IP can leave the network at all, which guarantees that if my VPN gets disconnected the host goes completely offline.
Very easy to do something similar for your container.
netstat -rn
route -n
ip r
Open a bash prompt in the container and do a command like curl www.ifconfig.me. That will give you the ip that is being used for outgoing traffic.
Total beginner here asking on an old thread. I just got haugene-transmission-openvpn running. When I go to check Transmission’s IP, it starts with 172.
This is my local network address, right? Shouldn’t be something else?
That’s a really interesting way of doing it, especially since this container’s so called ‘kill switch’ is pretty basic. I’ll look into it
seems to be working. Thank you
Did you say transmission’s IP as in the IP you use to access the web GUI? Please get back to me, I think I know what’s going on
Curious - how does it compare to binhex’s vpn torrent images (if you’ve sampled)?
Bear with me because I have almost no idea what I’m doing.
If I go to a site that has a torrent ip link like: http://checkmyip.torrentprivacy.com, it’ll show my browser’s IP: 173.xxx.xxx.xx - as expected since it’s not VPNed.
I copy the test torrent file & upload it through Transmission’s GUI at 192.xxx.x.xxx. It starts to download and gives me some red text saying "Tracker returned a warning. Detected. IP: 172.xx.xx.xx. The same IP shows up in the torrent Ip field at http://checkmyip.torrentprivacy.com
Can you do this?
Open a bash prompt in the container and do a command like: ‘curl www.ifconfig.me’ That will give you the ip that is being used for outgoing traffic. Also, don’t worry about still learning, I was where you are now not that long ago
Just did it - same IP: 172.98.67.89
That is very kind of you. Thank you so much.
Tell you what. It’s quite late now where I am and I don’t want to turn on my OMV VM now, but, tomorrow I am willing to make you a little guide of what I want you to try (we can also compare configs and so on). I’ll try and remember but if you can I’d appreciate if you can send me a reminder on reddit. I’ll do my best to help:)
No problem, also I moved my last comment, sorry about that