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Crowdsec is a type of WAF you could say that covers a wide variety of attack scenarios and is fed by community input into the system as well. Very nice package imho. I use it.
Other than that, I'm watching this thread because I've been reading up on Pangolin and it seems to be quite an inclusive package and covers a lot of ground with just one install. It seems to be along the lines of a Caddy/Tailscale scenario, just in one complete go.
Can you port forward to anything else in your network that you know works 100% to check if the problem is something besides Pangolin?
I was initially very concerned that you were trying to install a 13+ year old version of Ubuntu, 12.04 (Precise Pangolin). Now I just feel old.
Precise Pangolin
Dude! I've been sitting here for about an hour trying to find an old 32 bit distro that will run on an old Dell Latitude laptop I have. Well guess what? Precise Pangolin works just like it should. Had to go download the torrent, but all is well. Thanks a bunch mate. You cut down my trial and error time by a bunch because I had a stack of them here to try.
I have a 25yr old PII that TinyCore runs just fine on.
Mint offers 32bit support, unless you've got a really old cpu.
There are cave drawings of this cpu
According to the docs, you should be using UDP port 51820 (unless you changed the port in the docker compose file).
You should also check the dynamic config file to be sure that it's using the correct domain name. See this page: https://docs.fossorial.io/Getting%20Started/Manual%20Install%20Guides/docker-compose
If you're still having issues, make sure the containers are running with docker compose stats and check the logs with docker compose logs -f. It might also be worth checking the domain name to be sure that it's resolving to the correct IP address, both locally and externally.
Just to clarify. I have 80 and 443 as TCP and 51820 (sorry for the typo) as UDP. I used the automatic installer script. Doesn't that generate the config files? If not, then probably there lies my problem.
As a sanity check, I just completed the same setup that you described (Ubuntu Server 24.04 running in a Proxmox VM, Domain name pointing to a CNAME that points to the Dynamic IP, using the installer script, enabled CrowdSec, etc.), and everything worked out of the box. A couple of things I noticed that would also be worth checking now that I'm more familiar with this specific setup are:
dig pangolin.mydomain.com or dig @1.1.1.1 pangolin.mydomain.com should show the CNAME that points to the A record.I hope that helps!
The script should take care of that config, but it's something to check just in case there was a typo or anything else like that.
Did you check to make sure the DNS records are resolving properly?
Ok so what is pangolin? I'm only familiar with the animal and its role in the pandemic.
Edit: someone doesn't like jokes I guess?
It's a reverse proxy, tunnel like Tailscale, with LetsEncrypt like Caddy, and a few other goodies all rolled into one.
Pangolin is like cloudflare tunnels, but you can self host it
Interesting. This could be a decent secondary use for my VPS