Private Internet Access Client (qBittorrent+OpenVPN+Iptables+DNS over TLS on alpine/ubuntu)

Nextgen (GEN4) Server compatible

⚠️ Your qbittorrent.conf may not be compatible with 4.4.0 and may need to be deleted

Lightweight qBittorrent & Private Internet Access VPN client

Click to show base components

• Ubuntu 20.04 for a base image
• Alpine 3.15.0 for a base image
• OpenVPN 2.4.4 to tunnel to PIA nextgen servers
• IPtables 1.6.1 enforces the container to communicate only through the VPN or with other containers in its virtual network (acts as a killswitch)

Features

• Configure everything with environment variables

  • Destination region
  • Internet protocol
  • Level of encryption
  • PIA Username and password
  • DNS Servers

• Self contained qBittorrent

• Exposed webUI

• Downloads & config Volumes

• The iptables firewall allows traffic only with needed PIA servers (IP addresses, port, protocol) combinations

• OpenVPN reconnects automatically on failure

Setup

1. Requirements

   • A Private Internet Access username and password - Sign up referral link
   • External firewall requirements, if you have one
     • Allow outbound TCP 853 to 1.1.1.1 to allow Unbound to resolve the PIA domain name at start. You can then block it once the container is started.
     • For UDP normal encryption, allow outbound UDP 1198
     • For the built-in web HTTP proxy, allow inbound TCP 8888
   • Docker API 1.25 to support init

2. Launch the container with:

   docker run -d --init --name=pia --cap-add=NET_ADMIN -v /My/Downloads/Folder/:/downloads \
   -p 8888:8888 -e REGION="Netherlands" -e USER=xxxxxxx -e PASSWORD=xxxxxxxx \
   j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent

   Note that you can:

   • Change the many environment variables available
   • Use -p 8888:8888/tcp to access the HTTP web proxy
   • Pass additional arguments to openvpn using Docker's command function (commands after the image name)

Testing

Check the PIA IP address matches your expectations

try http://checkmyip.torrentprivacy.com/

Environment variables

Environment variable	Default	Description
REGION	Netherlands	One of the PIA regions
USER		Your PIA username
PASSWORD		Your PIA password
WEBUI_PORT	8888	1024 to 65535 internal port for HTTP proxy
! DNS_SERVERS	209.222.18.222,209.222.18.218,103.196.38.38,103.196.38.39	DNS servers to use, comma separated

PIA DNS Servers 209.222.18.222 and 209.222.18.218 Handshake DNS Servers 103.196.38.38 and 103.196.38.39

Connect to it

You can connect via your web browser using http://127.0.0.1:8888 or you public ip / LAN if you have forwarding set up

Default username: admin Default Password: adminadmin

For the paranoids

• You can review the code which essential consists in the Dockerfile and entrypoint.sh

• Any issues please raise them!!

• Build the images straight from git:

  docker build -t j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent https://github.com/j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent-docker.git

• clone the repository and build:

  git clone https://github.com/j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent-docker.git
  cd pia-qbittorrent-docker
  docker build -t j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent .

• Using docker compose:

    git clone https://github.com/j4ym0/pia-qbittorrent-docker.git
    cd pia-qbittorrent-docker
    docker-compose up -d

• The download and unziping of PIA openvpn files is done at build for the ones not able to download the zip files

• Checksums for PIA openvpn zip files are not used as these files change often (but HTTPS is used)

• PIA Nextgen servers are used

• DNS Leaks tests seems to be ok, NEED FEEDBACK

TODOs

• More DNS leack testing
• Edit config from environment vars

License

This repository is under an MIT license