I have had Plex Remote Access working behind my PIA with OpenVPN for over a year by utilizing an earlier version of the bat file detailed in the below thread:
I recently upgraded to a new PC and lost the old bat file. I’ve tried using the new one provided in the thread but none of them work.
Regardless of which version of the bat file I use I get “*** Request to UnKnown timed-out”
I think I found my own solution… the reason the script was failing was that NSLOOKUP was not working when VPN was connected…
So I edited the properties of my network adapter IPv4 to use Google’s DNS servers rather than to get them from my ISP and it seems to have worked! I no longer get the error when running the script. I have now scheduled the script to run every hour and I have my green check mark in Plex indicating that remote access is working. Live is good again.
For me at least, the above solution worked along with the “VPN Bypass for Plex Media Server - 255.255.0.0.exe” along with Windows Task Scheduler setup to run it hourly.
This solution worked for me, too. Thanks!
