I entered the IP you suggested into the PMS and it worked!!! You are the man (or woman)! Thank you, thank you, thank you. I had spent hours upon hours on this issue.
What are your Roku Ultra clients network settings?
Interesting… under most default installations, my understanding is that PMS will consider anything on the same LAN as local if that field is empty. Most installs should have it completely empty.
Just checked and one of the Ultras has a 192.168.0.129!!
Hey, I’m just thankful and grateful it worked! Thanks again!
That’s good. It should be streaming locally.
Maybe one of the good Plex folks can chime with some idea of what’s going on.
It is streaming locally now. I don’t remember having that field completed and when I tried with the .119 (which is the server address) it didn’t change a thing, obviously to you I’m sure. But your suggestion did the trick.
That field is a network name, not a host name. It uses the CIDR notation, in your case, 192.168.0.0/24. Your network name is 192.168.0.0, and your client addresses will be between 192.168.0.2 (.1 is your firewall,) and 192.168.0.254. The /24 is how many bits there are in the subnet mask, counting from the left. Each octet is 8 bits, so 24 bits is the 3 leftmost octets. Any clients between .2 and .254 can communicate directly with each other. To communicate with any other network addresses, as in not with a 192.168.0.x network name, traffic gets sent to the network gateway (pfSense) which will then route the packets.
As long as it’s working, I wouldn’t worry too much about it. Me, this is my expertise, figuring out network issues is part & parcel of my trade. I don’t think that field is required to be filled in, but it won’t hurt as long as the proper network name/address is used in the proper format. Yes, it’s known to be a bit picky.
LOL! It is working. Again, thanks for the help and the detailed explanation/lesson. I’m trying to soak it all in!
pfsense has one of the DNS resolvers which apply DNS rebinding protection. Which is usually a good thing, but prevents secure connections of local Plex clients from working.
Make sure you have added the exception for the domain plex.direct.
https://support.plex.tv/articles/206225077-how-to-use-secure-server-connections#toc-4
Oh, and don’t enable the new DNS resolver in pfsense, as it is still in preview (AFAIK) and has some issues around that exception.
Thank you. I had already done what you suggested prior to posting this. That may have helped I guess. Thank you for the insight on the DNS info!
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