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Proxying torrent traffic to homeserver (feddit.it)
submitted 1 month ago by andscape@feddit.it to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm setting up a self-hosted stack with a bunch of services running on a home device. I'm also tunneling all the traffic through a VPS in order to expose the services without exposing my home IP or opening ports on my local network. Currently all my traffic is HTTP, and its path looks like this:

  • Caddy proxy on remote VPS (HTTPS, :80 & :443)
  • Wireguard tunnel
  • Caddy proxy in Docker on homeserver (HTTP, :80)
  • app containers in separate isolated subnets, shared with Caddy

I want to set up qBittorrent and other torrent apps, and I want all their traffic to pass through the proxies. Proxying traffic to the WebUI is easy, there's plenty of tutorials; what I'm struggling with is proxying the torrent leeching and seeding traffic, which is the most important part since I live in a country that's not cool with piracy.

Unless I'm misunderstanding, BitTorrent traffic is TCP or UDP, so I'd need Caddy to act as a Layer 4 proxy. There's a community-maintained plugin that should support this. How would I configure it though? Do I need both instances to listen on a new port? Or can I open a new port on the VPS only, and forward traffic to the homeserver Caddy over the same port as the HTTP traffic (:80)? Are there nuances in proxying TCP traffic that I should be aware of?

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[–] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)

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