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[Solved][Kinda] Server blocking LAN responses over Wireguard VPN (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm trying to setup Wireguard to use as a VPN on my server using this guide. I currently run Pihole on the same machine.
LAN 192.168.1.*
WG 10.14.0.*
WG Server Addr 10.14.0.1
WG Client Addr 10.14.0.10

The handshake succeeds, and I can even ping IP addresses. However, it doesn't receive DNS responses. I checked in Wireshark and see the following:
WAN Client IP -> Server IP [Wireguard]
WG Client IP -> Server IP [DNS Request]
Server IP -> Server IP [DNS Request]
Server IP -> Server IP [DNS Response]
WG Server Addr -> WG Client Addr [DNS Response]
WG Client Addr -> WG Server Addr [ICMP Port unreachable]

I'm admittedly pretty inexperienced when it comes to routing, but I've been at this for days with no success. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Edit

I now realize that it would have been relevant to mention the my Pihole instance was running inside a rootless podman container.

To test things further, I wrote a small echo server and spun it up on bare metal. Wireguard had no issues with that. My guess is that something between wireguard and specifically rootless podman was going wrong. I still don't know what, unfortunately.

My fix was to put Pihole in a privileged podman container with a network and static IP e.g. --net bridge:ip=10.88.0.230. I also put wireguard into a privileged podman container on the same network --net bridge. Finally, I set the peer DNS to the Pihole's static IP on the podman network (10.88.0.230).

As I said before, I still don't know why podman wasn't replying to the correct IP initially. I'm happy with my fix, but I'd still prefer the containers to be rootless so feel free to message me if you have any suggestions.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your DNS might be configured to only answer local (from 192 addresses) requests. Did you enable IP masquerading?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. And I set Pi-hole to respond to any interface. Plus, I can see the response being sent in Wireshark. It only gets blocked inside the wireguard interface.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok so you see your request in the pihole log? Which address does it show?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do see the request. I'm running it inside a container so all the clients show up as the container's hostname.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you get to the pihole admin page over wg? Trying to narrow down if it's just port 53 or everything else too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nope. I can't ssh in either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok what's your container setup? LXC? Docker? Compose?

Is the WG server also a container?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Rootless podman. The plan is to eventually move WG into a container once I get it working, but it's running on bare metal at the moment.