@feld said:
I’m guessing they added some security controls. This makes sense, but running in a jail has a few unusual quirks the devs were probably not aware about. Eg, when you try to access 127.0.0.1 you’re actually accessing the main IP of your server, not a real loopback. This will make the source address of the connection look like an external address and so they blocked it by default as they never considered the address of the server itself would be used.
Thank you good sir! I had been struggling to figure out why I couldn’t get metadata to pull down in the new jail environment I moved Plex to (and I even saw in the logs it was referencing 127.0.0.1 in the requests). Helped me learn something new about the jails, to boot!
Good GAWD! Thank you for this!!! For the life of me could not figure out why Plex was no longer showing any of the metadata. Didn’t know if it was FreeNAS, Sonarr, SABNzbd, Plex or what the deal was. I entered the IP of the jail and VOILA…like magic all of my missing episode data started to show up. Many thanks for this post!
Been fighting this for two days since I upgraded to FreeNAS 11.2 and reinstalled Plex in the new jail system. Don’t recall having to do this before, but this fixed my issue straight away. It’s downloading posters and other metadata as we speak.
I hope this fix this quickly in future FreeNAS updates.
Thank you for this. It seems that this was never fixed. I upgraded to FreeNAS 11.2 after Plex made it impossible to continue running in older systems with their 1.15 version and I was fighting with this problem for 2 days.
Just wanted to come here and say I just installed a new Plex Media Server via Plugin on FreeNAS 11.2 and had the same issue with metadata not downloading.
This fixed my issue! Hopefully this can help someone else with the same issue.
