Manually renew IP address without restarting the container

[seth100]

Hi,

I am using gluetun in a docker compose stack running other containers connected. My VPN provider is Mullvad with multiple server countries and I use the Wireguard protocol.
Is there a way to manually renew (obtain a new) IP address without restarting the gluetun container?
Thanks

[seth100]

Anyone? There is really no way to do that?

[DcR-NL]

You can stop and start the VPN using the Control Server. It also allows you to query your public IP.

For example, using curl:

# curl -X PUT --fail --silent --show-error http://localhost:8000/v1/openvpn/status -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"status":"stopped"}'
{"outcome":"stopped"}
# curl -X PUT --fail --silent --show-error http://localhost:8000/v1/openvpn/status -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"status":"running"}'
{"outcome":"running"}

[seth100]

great thanks!

[SR-G]

Works fine, for reference, for wireguard, it should probably be now something like (seems "/vpn" endpoints are now exposed) :

URL="https://<basicauth, ...>@gluetun-api.domain"
curl -X PUT --fail --silent --show-error ${URL}/v1/vpn/status -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"status":"stopped"}'
curl -X PUT --fail --silent --show-error ${URL}/v1/vpn/status -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d '{"status":"running"}'