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I’ve noticed that there are almost daily attempts to access my home network via my PMS. Fortunately, these attempts are (assumingly) being blocked by my ISP security and my PC security. Is there something I can do to harden my server to stop/limit these attempts?
This sounds rather vague… what „attempts“ do you experience?
It is an inbound connection to the plex media server.exe file on port 32400 and typically comes from different IP addresses (likely VPNs). It says the website gets blocked by my protection software.
Sounds like port scanning. There’s nothing you can do to avoid them if you have open ports.
If you don’t really need remote access to your Plex server turn off the forwarded port.
If you do need remote access for just yourself consider setting up a VPN to your home network from your remote devices so the Plex server can be reached from only inside your home network, but you can get on the home network remotely using the VPN.
Got it, that makes sense. I don’t have much experience getting VPNs setup on my home network. Do you have any info you could direct me to? Networking has always been my weakness in IT.
I use WireGuard in Docker personally, but that isn’t exactly easy to set up. I’ve heard good things about Free pricing plans and discounts · Tailscale though, and I think it’s be more user friendly to set up.
The first and easiest thing you can do is change the external port you’re using. Everybody knows the default port for Plex is 32400 so it’s a popular one for people to snoop on.
This doesn’t stop someone who is specifically targeting you but it will limit the random kind of scripted sniffing on known default ports people use for a variety of applications
It might also just be plex.tv testing remote access to your server.
See https://support.plex.tv/articles/200931138-troubleshooting-remote-access/
the section " IPs Being Blocked".
