Wondering if there’s a way to manually bind the plex server to a specific WAN IP address. I have 2 ISP’s, unfortunately one blocks traffic to plex, the other does not. My issue is that Plex about 80% of the time grabs a public IP from the blocked ISP. I’ve firewalled my plex server ports and as far as the router is concerned plex shouldn’t bother even seeing the blocked ISP. I’d gather that the server uses some other port than the remote access port when it checks for connectivity, and grabs the wrong IP.
Is there anything that can be done to bind it to a specific WAN address?
Interesting, never thought to toss in the IP as the publish URL, that’ll work wonderfully. They should rephrase that. Or suggest a router bases dynamic DNS service.(which bonehead me only thought of after your suggestion)
Not quite, I have a load balancing router that allows me to use both connections simultaneously, the computer only has a single connection to a single IP on the LAN, the router gets 2 WAN connections and a crapton of rules. For multi-point network connections the router will balance the load between the connections based on demand, for single connections whatever gets grabbed first is what sticks.
In Plex’s case I’d need to know what ports it uses to test it’s connection to the publish service (which is likely port 80 and something I REALLY don’t want to map to a single WAN connection as it would slow down so many other things. If I knew the target servers Plex connects to and their ports I could bind those directly to a single WAN.
I think Otto might have gotten the solution right, we’ll see over the next week or so.
