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VPN client in a thin Docker container for multiple VPN providers, written in Go, and using OpenVPN or Wireguard, DNS over TLS, with a few proxy servers built-in.

11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 10 comments · first 2022-07-04 · latest 2025-09-17

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  1. …a desktop client won't protect you against. [0] https://github.com/jamesmcm/vopono [1] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
    comment by IlikeKitties · 2025-09-17 · in PureVPN IPv6 Leak
  2. …my own home. It can't access the net without the VPN being connected and I've checked for IP leaks. https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun However at some point I will have a machine setup in a foreign country as a jump box.
    comment by ReaperCub · 2025-07-15 · in Cloudflare starts blocking pirate sites for UK users
  3. …and running. These Webtop containers are nice and snappy as well thanks to Kasm. Awesome OSS. [0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
    comment by windexh8er · 2025-01-14 · in Webtop – Alpine,Ubuntu,Fedora,and Arch containers containing full desktop envs
  4. There is gluetun, https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun , which servers a similar purpose whole supporting ovpn and wireguard (including prepared configs for various commercial VPN providers). It's usable with, e. g., Docker to have…
    comment by c0balt · 2024-11-09 · in Mullvad will drop OpenVPN support
  5. …up a containers that are only able to communicate through a vpn network interface in an easy way. https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun With this it is not much effort to set up qbittorrent in a privacy secure way.
    comment by seymon · 2024-10-03 · in QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads
  6. qbittorrent + gluetun works like magic (if you’re running containers). https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
    comment by Cyph0n · 2024-10-03 · in QBittorrent: Open-Source, Lightweight BitTorrent Client with No Ads
  7. …lower values than the host. Presumably this project is to try and resolve that issue. [0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun/wiki/Wireguard#performance
    comment by aaravchen · 2023-05-21 · in Dwgd: Docker WireGuard Driver
  8. Question: what does this do better than the (relatively) well-established Gluetun [0]? [0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
    comment by piaste · 2023-05-20 · in Dwgd: Docker WireGuard Driver
  9. …Comes with basic container namespace firewall configuration and DNS over TLS configuration. [0] https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun
    comment by 2bluesc · 2023-04-14 · in Surpassing 10Gb/S over Tailscale
  10. Gluetun has an integrated killswitch: https://github.com/qdm12/gluetun I used to use https://github.com/dperson/openvpn-client which has a killswitch option as well. By kill-switch I mean iptables rules that don't let anything out if…
    comment by sph · 2022-07-04 · in Popcorn Time Is Back