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binhex / arch-qbittorrentvpn

Docker build script for Arch Linux base with qBittorrent, Privoxy and OpenVPN
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add support for randomly chosen *.ovpn files #22

Closed cybrnook closed 5 years ago

cybrnook commented 5 years ago

Add ability to have docker container randomly choose from multiple .ovpn files located in /config/openvpn. This is good for moving your location from time to good to provide a better sense of protection while behind a VPN. As well, server are known to become saturated at times, so a potential restart of your container would solve this issue by rotating you to another.

This is a simple/graceful solution to implement server rotation without attempting to support "remote-random" which is integrated into openvpn, however would require a larger rework of the existing scripting logic, which is unnecessary.

To use, include multiple .ovpn files from your current VPN provider into the /config/openvpn folder. On container restart, one of the .ovpn files will be randomly chosen for use, using the credentials stored in your docker template.

Signed-off-by: Hans Geiblinger cybrnook2002@yahoo.com

ljmerza commented 5 years ago

Any updates for this pr? I'd like to see this feature. Thanks!

cybrnook commented 5 years ago

@ljmerza - @binhex and I had a brief conversation about this ability here: https://forums.unraid.net/topic/75539-support-binhex-qbittorrentvpn/?do=findComment&comment=757244

While my PR would work fine for what we want to do. He is nervous about users with potentially misconfigured systems I think (more than 1 x ovpn file inside of the openvpn folder?). So he expressed that he would more prefer to see this go the direction of utilizing support for remote-random within the ovpn file. That would be a lot more work on my end (more than I am willing to do) since his current logic modifies existing ovpn files and strips all other occurrences of a remote server from the given ovpn file, would make it difficult to retain multiple remote servers for your pool. So it would be more digging to clean up his current code to support that.

As an alternative, I just wrapped my unraid server as a whole inside a VPN tunnel......