Server: 1.43.0.10231 Okay, need some advice here as I am at wits end. Recently moved to new house and had to switch from AT&T Fiber to Starlink. Since Starlink uses CGNAT I had to enable the use relay option in Plex so that the users of my Plex server can get to it. They have no issues and can acc…

Okay, for those following along and that find this thread later here is what I’ve done. I’ve setup my internal DNS servers with an rpc.whitelist zone which should allow the needed rebinding. I found a good write up for this at the URL below that I modified for my needs and included the changes I d…

Enable the “host network” check box. Otherwise you are adding yet another layer of NAT, that even your local devices must traverse. A second thing with local devices is your local DNS resolver. If it suppresses the use of an external DNS server for internal hosts (i.e. your Plex server), clients ca…

@OttoKerner - much appreciate the response. I should add that I’m running my own DNS server on Linux boxes (ISC BIND) and using Cloudflare as my forwarders. Given this I’m not sure the rebinding is an issue. I am reading up on how to whitelist the “plex.direct” domain but again not sure if it’s n…

[image] Spunky17: Given this I’m not sure the rebinding is an issue. It very much is, because rebinding protection is nowadays active by default. And if it is, it will interfere with local server access and in many cases prevent it (or force the traffic through the WAN, when it should be loca…

I have found a few, working to see about adapting them for this.

Did you follow @OttoKerner ’s advice and leave the “Host Network” option selected? If not, there are other steps you’re going to need to follow to allow direct connections. Specifically, you’ll need to set the “ADVERTISE_IP” environment variable for your container to the URL where the server can be…

@pshanew - Yes I did check host networking and still having some issues as noted above. I didn’t know about the ADVERTISE_IP option you mentioned. That might help with limiting it to a certain IP instead of all the ones available. I’ll give that a try as well! Thx!

@pshanew - I had that set already to http://<plex.mydnsdomain>:32400 but I added the entry for IP as well since it’s a comma separated list

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The above appears to have address my issues so I’m going to mark that as the solution for now. All testing appears to have gotten everything back to as it was. Thanks to all that chimed in.

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