A few questions about custom URL

Plex Media Server Remote Access
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I’ve set up a custom url on http://plex.mydomain.com:32400 which is a round robin dynamic dns of my cable and dsl wan (on a pfsense router) and static port forward

  1. should I disable remote access? I’m uncertain what disabling it does when I have a static port and port forward enabled aside from announcing the found ip address (primary gateway on router) to plex servers?

  2. what does plex do with more than one nonlocal url? does it choose one randomly or go down the list until it can connect? I’ve read (probably on reddit) that it sends the plex.direct url first but I’ve seen already clients on the secondary wan with remote access still enabled so it’s left me wondering what happens.

The reason I ask is dns is not perfect due to the time to live and caching to update fast enough for proper failover so I was also thinking of putting an additional custom url to ensure it can fail over to one or other wan connection; however that could break the round robin url depending on how the plex client searches for the server. Preferably it tries local first then first custom url then second custom url etc. Random would also be ok if it was truly random.

thanks

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