Container cannot reach openvpn server, but host can about alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn HOT 2 OPEN

Not sure if this is relevant but I get permission denied if I try to ping the VPN server from inside the container

$ sudo docker container exec -it 36f0d2e67643 /bin/bash
bash-5.1# ping <SNIP>
PING <SNIP> (<SNIP>): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Operation not permitted

from alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn.

I installed this fork #131 but this did not help. The patch was definitely applied correctly (these commands are being run inside the container, not on the host)

bash-5.1# grep -e "^VPN_PROTO" /etc/cont-init.d/03-setup-iptables
VPN_PROTO="${CONFIG_PROTO:=udp}"

and the firewall appears to be configured properly (snipped IP is the correct IP)

bash-5.1# iptables -S | grep udp | grep -v 53
-A INPUT -s <SNIP>/32 -i eth+ -p udp -m udp --sport 1194 -j ACCEPT
-A OUTPUT -d <SNIP>/32 -o eth+ -p udp -m udp --dport 1194 -j ACCEPT

from alpine-qbittorrent-openvpn.