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The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that
by andrelaszlo 4y ago
The main reason I switched to Deluge is that it has great support for Socks proxies. Surprisingly, the support is terrible or non-existent in other clients that I tested (Transmission).
If you use a proxy that's only available through your VPN, you'll be protected if the VPN connection goes down.
- jacob019 4y agoIf my wireguard VPN goes down then I lose connectivity. What garbage VPN tech would silently disable on failure?
- andrelaszlo 4y agoThat seems to be the default configuration of OpenVPN (Arch) but it's probably my fault.
- madars 4y agoUnfortunately downloading over SOCKS proxy also means inability to download from swarms where all peers can't accept an incoming connection, which matters for obscure torrents. I'd suggest running your VPN-only applications in a separate network namespace https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ https://www.wireguard.com/netns/ . This will also prevent, for example, WebRTC or https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ https://www.theregister.com/2015/11/30/port_fail_vpn/ style leaks as the application won't see other interfaces.
- andrelaszlo 4y agoWow, this looks a bit tricky but super cool. Have to look into it. Thank you for the suggestion!
- bartvk 4y agoAre you sure that the proxy is actually used? Deluge has a bug that's open since 10 years or so, and it's about ignoring proxy settings. https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43 https://dev.deluge-torrent.org/ticket/2149#comment:43
- andrelaszlo 4y agoYeah, tested it quite a bit! But that's not reassuring.