PMS sending out discovery packets every 10 seconds

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I’ve noticed that PMS is recording a WARN in my logs every 10 seconds. I’ve pasted a few of them below (I x’d out my IP):

Feb 12, 2017 07:10:34.792 [0x7fb18f3ff700] WARN - NetworkServiceBrowser: Error sending out discover packet from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to 239.255.255.250: Operation not permitted
Feb 12, 2017 07:10:44.785 [0x7fb18f3ff700] WARN - NetworkServiceBrowser: Error sending out discover packet from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to 239.255.255.250: Operation not permitted
Feb 12, 2017 07:10:54.785 [0x7fb18f3ff700] WARN - NetworkServiceBrowser: Error sending out discover packet from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to 239.255.255.250: Operation not permitted
Feb 12, 2017 07:11:04.785 [0x7fb18f3ff700] WARN - NetworkServiceBrowser: Error sending out discover packet from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx to 239.255.255.250: Operation not permitted

The warnings don’t seem to be effecting my ability to stream from the server, but it’s a bit cumbersome to see this much unnecessary I/O.

A little bit about my setup:

  1. I’m running the latest PMS version
  2. This is a remote only system, I have it hosted by hosting company
  3. The OS is Ubuntu 16.04
  4. I have blocked any unnecessary ports using iptables, I can post my iptables rules if needed
  5. Both GDM and DLNA are disabled in the settings, I’ve also added BonjourEnabled=“0” to Preferences.xml
  6. IPv6 support is disabled

Has anyone run into this? Not sure if there’s some other setting I need to alter to get the PMS to stop sending out these packets. If you can help I would really appreciate it, thanks!

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please show the results of ifconfig and netstat -rn.

If you are concerned of privacy, please PM and add the link to this thread.

PMS doesn’t use multicast

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Thanks for helping! I sent you a PM with the output of the commands you asked for.

4

Thanks, now please create the logs (Settings - Server - Help - Download Logs) and PM that ZIP file.

From what you’ve shown me so far, it looks like the obfuscated IP wants a multicast reply…

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Sent you the zip. Plex Media Server.1.log and Plex Media Server.2.log have verbose logging info in them.

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Those messages are filling your log because SSDP is blocked by your iptable rules.

7

Hey guys, sorry was out of town for a few days. How do I unblock SSDP? A quick search said that SSDP transmits on port 1900, so I unblocked that but it didn’t seem to have any effect. Is there something else I need?

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@chiviak said:
Hey guys, sorry was out of town for a few days. How do I unblock SSDP? A quick search said that SSDP transmits on port 1900, so I unblocked that but it didn’t seem to have any effect. Is there something else I need?
Private message myself and Chuck your UFW config file.