Add a SOCKS5 proxy server?

[jpbaril]

Hi,

Everything is working well for the base setup but I have a particular use case I cannot make to work.

I would like to make the traffic of other torrent clients in my home go through the Privoxy proxy.

For example, I have a qBittorent client that has the option to route its connection through a proxy.

The client seem to get peer list but download never happen.
Also tried with a Transmission client. Same thing happen.

Is is that bittorrent traffic cannot work on HTTP Privoxy?
[Edit: I now understand that Privoxy is only a HTTP proxy and that torrent traffic cannot work with HTTP proxies, only with SOCKS5 proxies]

Could it be evaluated to add a SOCKS5 proxy server?

[pkishino]

@jay-to-the-dee any chance you can answer this?

[jay-to-the-dee]

I think it would have to be a seperate service, am pretty sure Privoxy is HTTP only explictly by design.

[jpbaril]

I used @pkishino suggested container. https://hub.docker.com/r/wernight/dante

I wasn't aware of the possibility of using another's container networking. That did the trick.

[jpbaril]

I think I understand that Privoxy is only a HTTP proxy and that torrent traffic cannot work with HTTP proxies, only with SOCKS5 proxies.
Any recommendation on which socks5 proxy to integrate and how?
Thanks

[pkishino]

my suggestion is to just containerise the other torrent clients and make them use this containers link, that way all traffic will go through the vpn

[jpbaril]

It's not a possibility as they are other computers around the house.

[pkishino]

in that case they are better of running their own vpn tunnel per client? just seems much easier to manage and setup then to add an additional package to this container imo

[jpbaril]

I have limit of VPN connections with my provider.
Also, with SOCKS5 proxy I can route only the traffic of particular apps (i.e. Bittorrent clients) and not the whole computer traffic.

[pkishino]

had a quick google,
setup the container
https://hub.docker.com/r/wernight/dante
and make it use this containers network to tunnel

[JtMotoX]

I was able to get it working by adding this service to my docker-compose.yml

  socks5-proxy:
    image: wernight/dante
    restart: always
    network_mode: service:transmission-openvpn
    depends_on:
      - transmission-openvpn
    command:
      - /bin/sh
      - -c
      - |
        echo "Waiting for VPN to connect . . ."
        while ! ip link show tun0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || ! ip link show tun0 | grep -q "UP"; do sleep 1; done
        echo "VPN connected. Starting proxy service . . ."
        sed -i 's/^\(external:\).*/\1 tun0/' /etc/sockd.conf
        sockd

[pkishino]

care to add a section describing this here please?
https://haugene.github.io/docker-transmission-openvpn/tips-tricks/

[JtMotoX]

PR #2541