Using VPS behind VPN

Bardulf

Hi,
I bought vps, it is located in US, I know they have rules about torrent, So it is illegal using torrent on my vps, I have vpn account that allow using torrent, Can I use it for downloading torrent with ratio 1, I wonder my provider can figure it out that I use it for torrenting?

vovler

Don't.

it is illegal

deank

Listen to @Revolver. He can be really scary during Russian roulette.

mksh

No, if you set it up right they can't figure out what you are doing by analyzing your traffic. Setup is a bit tricky though and given it's a VPS just looking at what's on your disk is very easy even if they really shouldn't. Still your main problem would be to get it to work without locking you out of ssh.

TimboJones

There's no issue of locking out SSH, AFAIK. Unless you set SSH to not listen on 0.0.0.0. I've never ran into that.

For me, the openvpn client doesn't reconnect reliably, so I had to make scripts to start and stop qbittorrent so it would only be running when openvpn successfully ran. The scripts had to set and remove route manually, so it's not just plug and play.

I think if I had to set it up, I'd look for a VPN provider with socks5. I'm not familiar, but I believe it accomplishes the same objective for torrenting without hassle of shitty openvpn overhead and hassles.

huntercop

Two considerations
1. Get a vps/dedi in a country where it is not illegal per se; or not strictly enforced,
2. Consider making it cheaper by running a VPN through it and using your computer for storage, so you do not need a resource loaded vps/dedi.

Validated and works well.

Unixfy

I've gotten this to work with a WireGuard tunnel and setting the wg interface as the default route on the VPS being used to download stuff.

Bardulf

@TimboJones said:
There's no issue of locking out SSH, AFAIK. Unless you set SSH to not listen on 0.0.0.0. I've never ran into that.

For me, the openvpn client doesn't reconnect reliably, so I had to make scripts to start and stop qbittorrent so it would only be running when openvpn successfully ran. The scripts had to set and remove route manually, so it's not just plug and play.

I think if I had to set it up, I'd look for a VPN provider with socks5. I'm not familiar, but I believe it accomplishes the same objective for torrenting without hassle of shitty openvpn overhead and hassles.

I can't find any script for this purpose what script do you use?

TimboJones

@Bardulf said:

@TimboJones said:
There's no issue of locking out SSH, AFAIK. Unless you set SSH to not listen on 0.0.0.0. I've never ran into that.

For me, the openvpn client doesn't reconnect reliably, so I had to make scripts to start and stop qbittorrent so it would only be running when openvpn successfully ran. The scripts had to set and remove route manually, so it's not just plug and play.

I think if I had to set it up, I'd look for a VPN provider with socks5. I'm not familiar, but I believe it accomplishes the same objective for torrenting without hassle of shitty openvpn overhead and hassles.

I can't find any script for this purpose what script do you use?

Oops. Upon review, this is why SSH works. I got this from here: Change the IP's and interface for your public static IP and interface.

cat /etc/openvpn/up.sh

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/ip rule add from 172.110.XX.XX table 128
/sbin/ip route add table 128 to 172.110.XX.0/24 dev eth0
/sbin/ip route add table 128 default via 172.110.XX.1
/sbin/ip route flush cache

systemctl start transmission-daemon.service
systemctl start qbittorrent-nox.service

cat /etc/openvpn/down.sh

#!/bin/sh
/sbin/ip route del table 128 default via 172.110.XX.1
/sbin/ip route del table 128 to 172.110.XX.0/24 dev eth0
/sbin/ip route del from 172.110.XX.XX table 128
/sbin/ip route flush cache

systemctl stop transmission-daemon.service
systemctl stop qbittorrent-nox.service

At the bottom of my openvpn conf file:

up /etc/openvpn/up.sh
down /etc/openvpn/down.sh