What is Plex connecting to?

Plex Media Server
,
1

Server Version#: 4.43.4
Player Version#: 1.26.0.1531-92029e9e

I have Plex server running on my NAS. It works fine.

When I run Plex player on a computer on my LAN, connecting to my server it tries connecting to several external IPS. What is all of this? Why is it trying to connect to them and not just my local server?

Most importantly, why is it trying to connect to google? I don’t want anything talking to google.


82.94.168.19
45.33.103.230
45.79.23.169
50.116.51.249
172.105.64.14
172.105.203.197
109.237.24.233
45.118.132.58
184.105.148.114
172.105.96.32
172.105.13.59

2

All of the IP addresses you listed are pubsub servers. This is the communication mechanism between plex.tv, servers, and clients to communicate certain events.

What makes you think any of these are Google?

3

When I launch Plex on my Mac, Little Snitch shows it connecting to google. and another new one called sentry.io

Screen Shot 2021-01-28 at 10.38.08 AM Screen Shot 2021-01-28 at 10.38.47 AM

4

sentry.io is for crash uploading.

What is the exact IP address that is being purported to be Google? A screenshot from some other app is not sufficient (they could be flat out wrong).

5

Maybe Plex hosts their app downloads on google’s servers?

Screen Shot 2021-01-28 at 11.00.30 AM

6

That’s fetching https://dl.google.com/widevine-cdm/versions.txt which is a version check on Widevine. Widevine is a library to allow playing of DRMed content such as the ad-supported video on demand as well as the ad-supported live tv channels (that Plex provides, not DVR).

7

Ah, thanks.

Is there a way to totally get rid of the Plex stuff? In my player apps I have the things on my server, then things offered from Plex in a separate section. I never use that and never will.

Thanks for the help, I appreciate it

8

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.