Which VPN should I use for Binhex *ARR containers? Is Tailscale compatible?

[MontyG10]

Hi all - relatively new to unRAID and home servers. I have been looking into setting up Prowlar, Sonarr, etc. and was planning to use the Binhex containers. I have Tailscale up and running on my server. Does this give automatic VPN protection for my ARR containers? or is there something specific I need to do within those containers to route them through Tailscale (assuming thats possible with Tailscale)?

FWIW - I have a NordVPN subscription as well if that's better for this use case, just saw that Tailscale was the recommended VPN for unRAID so figured I'd use that.

 

Still on 6.12.8

Thanks!

Edited July 19 by MontyG10
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[Veah]

I assign those containers their own IP and use router to send the data to whichever VPN path.  

[ytddewqf]

15 hours ago, MontyG10 said:

Hi all - relatively new to unRAID and home servers. I have been looking into setting up Prowlar, Sonarr, etc. and was planning to use the Binhex containers. I have Tailscale up and running on my server. Does this give automatic VPN protection for my ARR containers? or is there something specific I need to do within those containers to route them through Tailscale (assuming thats possible with Tailscale)?

FWIW - I have a NordVPN subscription as well if that's better for this use case, just saw that Tailscale was the recommended VPN for unRAID so figured I'd use that.

 

Still on 6.12.8

Thanks!

 

Hi, 

 

For what it's worth, I run Binhex-privoxyvpn as my VPN container, then route Prowlarr, Radarr, Sonarr, Deluge, Bazarr and Sabnzbd through it. As like anything new, there is a learning curve but Binhex has excellent FAQ's and he is very active in this forum (I'm still learning myself). One of the highlights of using unRaid for me, was the discovery of the Binhex containers, I would encourage you to have a read of this link, I'm sure you won't regret it;

 

 

As for the VPN, I have tried previously Mullvad, PIA and Nord, but now personally use ProtonVPN (wireguard protocol), it's fast, reliable and relatively cheap. NordVPN does not use wireguard I believe, it uses Nordlynx (a proprietary version of wireguard exclusive to NordVPN), so you may want to have a read up in the Binhex-privoxyvpn forum for compatibility, it's been a few years since I last used Nord. Once you establish which VPN provider you will use, you will need to download a CONF file from them and place it in the Binhex-privoxyvpn appdata folder.

 

Regarding Tailscale, I only ever used it when my Internet was previously behind CGNAT, it worked great in that instance when I needed to connect back to my unRaid server for Emby, however I'm not sure how that would play out for the ARR containers. My understanding is that Tailscale is a peer-to-peer VPN, meaning it is geared towards establishing a connection between two of your devices, ie connecting to your unRaid server whilst you're away from home. A traditional VPN provider like Nord and Proton establishes an encrypted tunnel between your server and a remote server owned/run by the VPN provider. 

 

Lastly, if you are not behind CGNAT I would encourage you to try out the Wireguard feature of unRaid. My experience using this and Tailscale is like night and day in terms of speed, but that's just my personal experience. 

 

Edited July 20 by ytddewqf