No external connections when VPN is running

[scottydelicious]

I fired up a haugene/transmission-openvpn docker instance with PIA credentials. I can reach the web interface, but adding magnet links or torrent files never progresses. They are stalled at 0% with no connections.

Tailing the log I can see:
(6) Could not resolve host: www.privateinternetaccess.com Got new port from pia transmission auth not required localhost:9091/transmission/rpc/ responded: "success" Checking port... Error: portTested: http error 0: No Response

When I "docker exec -it haugene-transmission /bin/bash", I cannot ping anything. restarting openvpn through the script doesn't help. If i issue "ip link delete tun0" to remove the tunnel device (tun0-00), I get "File descriptor in bad state".

Any ideas?

[haugene]

Sounds like a DNS issue. Have you tried starting the container with Google dns as stated in the "Known Issues" section of the readme?

[scottydelicious]

Thank you haugene. I feel like an idiot missing such a simple corrective measure that was laid out right in the README. Adding "--dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4" to my docker run command resolved this issue.

I apologize for taking up your time on this. Please mark this issue as solved or resolved.

SOLUTION: add --dns flags to the docker command.

[haugene]

No worries :) Glad it worked!