I do some admittedly strange routing on my network. Plex sits on a vlan that routes out through a 3rd party VPN. However, I want public Plex access over my WAN IP. I can do policy based routing, but I need to know the list of IPs or hostnames Plex uses when enabling remote access to check what my public IP is. Does anyone have that list?
Use the link in the section named “IPs being blocked”: https://support.plex.tv/articles/200931138-troubleshooting-remote-access/
Thanks for the reply. But I think those are the IPs for the inbound check to make sure the Plex service can reach your server though your FW/port forwarding. I need the outbound IPs plex uses to check what the public IP is.
Do you mean this address?
This won’t work how you’re thinking.
For Plex to be accessible inbound from the Internet over the normal WAN IP, the Plex server’s default outbound route must also be the normal WAN path.
When a client connects to the external WAN IP, the WAN router translates that connection to Plex’s internal IP. Responses to those clients must flow back out through that same WAN router so it can translate them back to the WAN IP. You can’t know what addresses the clients will have, so the default route on the Plex server must be via that normal WAN path.
The easiest thing is to move Plex out of the special routing VLAN.
Are also going to put every individual remote client for which you’d like to allow access to your allow list?
