IP Addresses of Plex's Home Base Servers

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Hi all,
I have remote access enabled on my Plex server and it works fine. My home network is behind a pfSense Firewall and I am using pfBlockerNG to restrict access to the services I am offering. What I am trying to do is to restrict access to my Plex Media Server (port 32400) to only the country I am living in. Because Plex needs to be visible to Plex’s Home Base Servers (central Plex Servers) in order for remote access to work, I need to know the IP addresses of the Plex Home Base Servers.

Now my question: is there an official list of Plex Home Base Servers (plex.tv Servers or whatever servers are needed for remote access to work) which I could refer to? This would allow me to enable the Plex Servers to see my system, but not the entire world.

Thanks!

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pfSense is smart enough to define a rule by domain name.

Since the default pfSense action is to block by drop (ignore), unless a Pass rule is defined, the inbound goes no further.

This therefore becomes a simple task:

  1. Create a Pass rule for domain plex.tv
  2. Create a Pass rule for those IP domains in your country (where play requests come from)
  3. Allow the default action of ‘Drop’ to ignore the rest.

Your system has just become a ‘hole in the internet’ which doesn’t respond to anything not permitted, including those IP addresses you allow remote access from.

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Nice! Thanks Chuck! That works like a charm!