Router Logs and Plex

General Discussions
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I replaced my router with a Netgear Nighthawk that retains connection logs. Using Plex works fine as does remote access.
In reviewing the recent log activity, I see these types of examples:

All of these connections get port forwarded to my Plex server (the xx:xxxxx in the url),

LAN access from remote] from 198.58.109.216:42930 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:46:31
[LAN access from remote] from 198.58.109.216:42928 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:46:31
[LAN access from remote] from 198.58.109.216:42916 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:46:30
[LAN access from remote] from 198.58.109.216:42914 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:46:30
[LAN access from remote] from 54.154.200.193:39071 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:46:15
[LAN access from remote] from 76.184.130.41:50144 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 19:53:27
[LAN access from remote] from 54.194.240.140:62926 to 192.168.1.xx:xxxxx, Friday, Apr 28,2017 20:01:39

Performing a reverse IP lookup show some in Dallas (my area), but the 54.154.200.193 is shown in Ireland. Is this a Plex (the company) service located in Ireland (ISP is shown as Amazon)? I’ve not noticed any unusual activity on my Plex server, but then I’m not looking at the activity all the time. I wasn’t accessing my Plex server at these times, but suppose the Plex server could have had some activity that wasn’t directly related to users.

Any clues/comments?

2

Yes, A portion of Plex exists in the Amazon cloud. Those IPs are what you’re seeing. just do a nslookup 54.154.200.193 and you’ll see

3

Thank you. I knew that with all of this type activity being forwarded to my Plex port, it was likely not my local Plex server but something to do with Plex itself. The Ireland bit was unexpected.

MacBook-Pro:~ User$ nslookup 54.154.200.193
Server: 192.168.1.xx
Address: 192.168.1.1#53

Non-authoritative answer:
193.200.154.54.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-54-154-200-193.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.

4

Some of Amazon’s servers are in Ireland.

Aren’t cloud-based services great? (har har)