Hi there! short long story. I have a PMS on my local network, but in a diff VLAN than the TV. Since I want to keep it isolated from my local network, I would like my TV to connect my PMS as Remote Access, and not as Nearby. Is it possible to force local clients to connect as “remote access” even when the server is local? The PMS works perfectly from WAN.
Thanks!!
If client and server are in different VLANs, they already should be not able to communicate directly with each other.
If the server cannot be reached on its “local” address, clients will try the WAN address of the server automatically.
If you enable DNS rebinding protection in your router/DNS resolver, it will fail to resolve the FQDN of your server (xxxxxxxxxxxx.plex.direct). Causing most clients to revert to the WAN address of the server. https://support.plex.tv/articles/206225077-how-to-use-secure-server-connections/
Of course clients which are allowed to fall back to unencrypted connections won’t be affected by this. Some client types can be prevented from falling back to unsecure connections. Look into the client settings.
Now you must only configure your router to not actually route that traffic to your ISP, but send it directly into the other VLAN to the server.
Thanks Otto for replying!
Some comments:
VLANs are isolated each other. TV is not able to “see” the PMS locally. DNS rebinding is not enable on my firewall.
So, the TV for some unknown reason is connecting to the PMS indirectly. Technically it should be connecting to PUBLIC-IP:PORT, but instead is using LOCAL-IP:PORT…and I think it’s “Indirect” because of course, it has no access directly to LOCAL-IP:PORT and because of that, it’s using the plex proxy relay.
The work around is to give access to the TV VLAN to the PMS VLAN, but I want to avoid that…
What I don’t understand, is why the TV is trying to use the Local IP instead of the public one…
Ok, Ive found the issue. The problem was that TV VLAN had no access to public-ip:port, so I’ve enable NAT reflection in that VLAN and it;s working now. Thanks!!
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