# OpenVPN via Docker builds

**URL:** <https://discuss.circleci.com/t/openvpn-via-docker-builds/5364>\
**Category:** Build Environment\
**Tags:** docker\
**Created:** [July 27, 2016, 9:47pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/openvpn-via-docker-builds/5364 "2016-07-27T21:47:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![drazisil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/circleci/user_avatar/discuss.circleci.com/drazisil/32/24029_2.png) [@drazisil](https://discuss.circleci.com/u/drazisil)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2016, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/openvpn-via-docker-builds/5364/2 "2016-07-27T22:44:36Z")

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VPNs are not possible, please see [https://circleci.com/blog/vpns-and-why-they-don-t-work/](https://circleci.com/blog/vpns-and-why-they-don-t-work/) for details.

Per this post is a possible workaround though

> [@VPN connection from Build machine](https://discuss.circleci.com/t/vpn-connection-from-build-machine/4033/2):
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> Hi DoryZI You can’t create a tun/tap driver on lxc, Circleci made a blog post [1] explaining this. Nevertheless I create a proxy socks [2] to redirect all traffic to my internal network and solved this vpn problem. [1] [https://circleci.com/blog/vpns-and-why-they-don-t-work/](https://circleci.com/blog/vpns-and-why-they-don-t-work/) [2] [https://gist.github.com/gianrubio/dce37ee9b9c024937832d776597e2603](https://gist.github.com/gianrubio/dce37ee9b9c024937832d776597e2603)

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