ZimaOS "IP n/a" and all traffic stopped

[johnfest]

Hey all,

I'm new to homelabbing and I haven't used Linux in about 20 years, so I'm relearning a lot as I go. I'm just trying to put together a basic media server to demonstrate for the family that we don't need to pay for six streaming services; and assuming that works I'm going to upgrade from there.

I set up using this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr7tPDe3Fks and followed every step to get things up and running (skipping the chown steps because I had no preexisting media libraries; and the usenet because I'm only setting up for torrents right now).

I'm on ZimaOS 1.6.2 and Deluge 2.2.0. I'm using Proton VPN on the free tier; I set up with WireGuard.

I was able to download two public domain movies (Night of the Living Dead (1968) and The Last Man On Earth (1964)) and I took a break for dinner. Both films were actively seeding when I walked away.

When I came back, all activity had stopped. I searched for another movie and found it via Prowlarr so I queued it up and it appeared in Deluge. Connections are at 0; Upload and Download are at 0; Protocol Traffic Down/Up is at 0; the field where my external IP had appeared earlier now says "IP n/a"; my storage is connected and correct.

I tried restarting the Gluetun/Deluge container; then stopping it and starting over. I reviewed the settings and they all look the same as when I started them. I tried restarting my entire system through ZimaOS. The issue persists.

I reviewed the FAQ and Troubleshooting pages here. I searched the forums here and searched the web for others having the same problem. I ran

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 curl ipinfo.io 

inside the container terminal and it shows that my VPN is working and I have an external IP in the Netherlands. One person said that they had this problem when they set Preferences to not use a Random Incoming Port, so I checked that, but my setting was already to use random.

Any ideas? Thanks so much in advance for your time and support!

[ambipro]

Gluetun is notoriously difficult to set up, and with proton VPN especially as its port and IP are not persistant. Some VPNs offer dedicated IPs with static port forwarding, Proton is not one of those.

If you only use a VPN with Deluge, I may suggest you look into either hotio or binhex's Docker containers, which support VPNs of both wireguard and openvpn and will automatically update.

It sounds like your VPN connection is being reset, and once it does that Deluge would need to be restarted. If you aren't partial to Gluetun (I don't know anyone who is after trying to use it in cases like this) then even if you're running Docker just for the Deluge container with VPN support, it may be worth it.

[shinger]

Hi John,

You really went for it head first...(homelabbing) and you are more then welcome with any questions that i might help you with .

I don't use Gluetun, prolarr and the rest of those tools as i don't watch any movies/series these days, so ambi kan help you with that.

When it comes to VPN. I myself use hide.me (see the comparison one of the better i must say https://vpn.techlore.tech). I also live in the Netherlands and it works flawlessly using their wireguard tunnel. They support port forwarding. HOWEVER i have changed my infrastructure at home in such a way that i can direct my traffic the way i want. Some goes over their VPN tunnel, while other traffic goes over my normal ISP connection. This might be too technically and scary to even dive in to it, but if you are interested let me know.

In my case i have setup hide.me tunnel with my OpenWRT VirtualMachine (Open Source router OS) running on a Proxmox mini-pc, where all my internet traffic comes in and goes out. That way i don't need to configure any device at home or even when i am outside. When i am outside i simply connect to my own private wireguard tunnel to thise OpenWRT VM and the traffic is led through Pihole (blocking advertisements) and going to the internet over my internet connection at home..ie..hide.me WIreguard VPN tunnel.

In your case you MIGHT have to create your own Docker image with a Docker file or if one is already available use that one. Then direct your download traffic over the VPN tunnel running within the Docker container. The other option is to setup something your self, that includes diving in to iptables and routing, to specifically let download traffic go over it.

[johnfest]

Gluetun is notoriously difficult to set up, and with proton VPN especially as its port and IP are not persistant. Some VPNs offer dedicated IPs with static port forwarding, Proton is not one of those.

If you only use a VPN with Deluge, I may suggest you look into either hotio or binhex's Docker containers, which support VPNs of both wireguard and openvpn and will automatically update.

It sounds like your VPN connection is being reset, and once it does that Deluge would need to be restarted. If you aren't partial to Gluetun (I don't know anyone who is after trying to use it in cases like this) then even if you're running Docker just for the Deluge container with VPN support, it may be worth it.

Thank you so much for your response! If I'm understanding you correctly, I would just run the Docker Compose for one of those two containers and they will run Deluge through my VPN without the added mess of building Gluetun into the container? I see a Qbit container on hotio but not one for Deluge. Do you have any pros/cons between the hotio and binhex options; and relatirely between Qbit and Deluge?

Thanks again for taking the time to help, it means a lot!

[ambipro]

You'll need to configure (binhex in this case, as hotio doesnt do Deluge - but does other clients if you needed them - such as radarr/sonarr, etc) - with your VPN settings. He has extensive documentation on how to do so, and if you are having trouble he's very active on the Unraid forums. I can probably go and find any questions answered there for you or ask them myself if you don't have an account and don't wanna make one.

But yes, compose with his images would work, as long as you set the appropriate environmental variables for openvpn or wireguard.

https://github.com/binhex/arch-delugevpn