European servers

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I recently added block rules for all inbound and outbound traffic from my network to anywhere outside the US.

Plex immediately broke.

So did the support.plex.tv and forums.plex.tv. support.plex.tv would show text, but no formatting, fonts, pictures, bacgrounds, etc., would load.

Some of the sites that were attempted to access by plex were blahblabh.eu.amazon something or other, and a few other sites which would resolve with various hostnames but not anything that would specifically indicate location on the globe.

I turned off the firewall rules and plex immediately started working again.

Why is plex accessing servers outside of the US, and are they specific enough that I can put in allow rules for them, or will they be rotating and/or randomly assigned and therefore I will forever be chasing my tail?

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First of all, not everything outside US is bad, in fact sometimes even better :wink:

Secondly, Plex has their servers hosted in the cloud, use CDN, and their cloud provider moves stuff around based on workload, maintenance etc.

And lastly, what made you think that Plex was a US only company?

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Ireland and UK are the two location that are being accessed and blocked. I’ve added them to my allow list. We’ll see what else happens.

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Germany too now. I guess I will be watching the network for a few days and adding a ton of IPs to the exceptions list.

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Plex uses the Amazon cloud for their services I believe. Like authentication, updates, etc… Amazon is probably load balancing if I had to guess. Why are you so against the World wide web?

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