Remote as Local bandwidth

Plex Media Server Desktops & Laptops
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Server Version#: 1.16.6.1592
Player Version#:NA

Plex will show some of my playback as remote (as it should) and some of it as local even though it is actually remote.

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All of this is remote, and 3/4 of them is picked up that way. But the last one thinks its local. I think Plex is using the X-Forwarded-For and it seems to mostly, but sometimes it doesn’t. I Can see in the log is says “Using X-Forwarded-For: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX as remote address” but then plex still classifies it as local.

Any idea why?

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Seeing that the IP shown in 192.168.1.1, I would think that connection is coming in through your reverse proxy. The true connection is hidden to Plex so it will think it is local.

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Why doesn’t it think that all my traffic is local then? Does plex respect the X-Forwarded-For header? It seems to for most traffic, seems to be some though that it does not, however. Should it?

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I don’t know how you setup your forwarding. Since you are not using Plex’s regular remote access settings, results will vary depending on what you’ve done.

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If the headers include a X-Forwarded-For does plex use that?

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Sorry, that’s beyond my knowledge.

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No problem, I assume that’s more a server question versus a client question :slight_smile:

@ChuckPa is this something you can answer perhaps?

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Any idea who might be able to answer this question as to why X-Forwarded-For sometimes works and other times doesn’t?

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