The download pipeline: gluetun and the VPN-namespace trick

The plumbing half of bender’s media stack: download clients that live inside a VPN network namespace, the label trick namespace-sharing requires, and the restart gotcha that otherwise pages you at 3 a.m.

May 9, 2026 · 4 min

ZeroTier: a private /24 across three sites

One flat 10.99.0.0/24 spanning site A, site B, and the VPS. No port forwards, no router surgery, and the two-nodes-one-NAT collision that silently makes everything slow.

February 28, 2026 · 4 min