Gluetun VPN Container Silently Drops Connection on Pinned Versions
Self-hosted media-server users pinning the qmcgaw/gluetun Docker image can lose VPN connectivity silently, breaking downstream indexers and download clients until they upgrade to a patched build. The issue has recurred across releases and requires manual version tracking to avoid.
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