Ship the tools the VPN toggle grants capability for
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`vpn_support_enabled` hands a project CAP_NET_ADMIN and /dev/net/tun, and the image then contains no `ip` and no `wg` — a capability with nothing able to exercise it. Bake `iproute2` and `wireguard-tools` (~4.3 MB with deps). They belong in the image rather than a runtime install for the reason the Dockerfile already gives for the Playwright libraries: the writable layer is lost on base-image migration. A hand-installed `wg` works until an upgrade and then vanishes, which presents as a tunnel that will not come up rather than as a missing package. One project only had `ip` at all because MariaDB pulled in iproute2 as a transitive dependency. `iptables` stays out. Only a desktop client's killswitch wants it, and those clients need a GUI the container cannot provide. Also correct three things the docs left users to discover: - the toggle grants capability and routes nothing, which is being reported as the default network "not routing through the VPN automatically" - no tunnel survives a restart, and `/run` state riding the snapshot makes it look as though one did while traffic goes out the real address - a full tunnel captures the Docker resolver, which sits outside the container's subnet, and takes DNS down with it — Claude Code then reports a connection failure because it cannot resolve api.anthropic.com, and a health check aimed at an IP literal passes throughout Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -475,7 +475,13 @@ When enabled, the host Docker socket is mounted into the container so Claude Cod
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When enabled, the container is given the three things a VPN client needs to build a tunnel:
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the `NET_ADMIN` capability, the `/dev/net/tun` device, and the `net.ipv4.conf.all.src_valid_mark`
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sysctl that WireGuard requires. This is **off by default**.
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sysctl that WireGuard requires. The `ip` and `wg` commands are always present to use them. This is
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**off by default**.
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**This setting makes a tunnel possible; it does not make one.** Nothing is connected, no traffic is
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redirected, and no client is installed or started on your behalf. Enabling it and expecting the
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container's traffic to start leaving through a VPN is the most common misreading of what it does —
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installing a client and routing traffic into it remains yours to do.
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Without it, a client such as PIA, WireGuard or OpenVPN installs and its daemon starts normally, but
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the connection attempt **hangs until it times out** — a default container has no tun device to open
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@@ -497,6 +503,21 @@ Things worth knowing:
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**start**, with an error naming `/dev/net/tun` and pointing back at this setting.
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- A VPN client's kill switch applies to everything in the container, Claude Code included. If the
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tunnel drops, expect API calls to fail until it reconnects or the kill switch is turned off.
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- **No tunnel survives a restart.** The network namespace is built fresh every time the container
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starts, and there is no service manager inside to reconnect anything. Files under `/run` may
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persist via the snapshot and make it *look* like the tunnel is still configured, but after any
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stop/start, Reset or recreation the interface and its routes are gone and traffic goes out your
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real address again — with no error and nothing visibly different. Re-establish it after every
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start, and check rather than assume.
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- **A full tunnel breaks DNS unless the client is told to leave private ranges alone.** Containers
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resolve through an address on the Docker network (`192.168.65.7` under Docker Desktop) that sits
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outside the container's own subnet, so a default route of `0.0.0.0/0` — or a `0.0.0.0/1` plus
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`128.0.0.0/1` pair — captures it and sends every lookup into a tunnel that cannot carry it. The
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symptom is total: Claude Code reports it cannot connect, because it cannot resolve
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`api.anthropic.com`. Route `10.0.0.0/8`, `172.16.0.0/12`, `192.168.0.0/16` and `169.254.0.0/16`
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via the original gateway, and use the VPN provider's own resolver for everything else. Note that
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a health check which fetches an IP literal such as `1.1.1.1` passes cleanly while this is broken —
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resolve a name instead.
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> This setting can only be changed when the container is stopped. Capabilities and devices are
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> fixed when a container is created, so toggling it recreates the container on the next start.
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