Why Does Plex.tv DNS entry Change so Much?

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I use a VPN and to make remote connections to work I have to create a static route inside of DSM. I go onto the dsnwatch site and find out which IPs are associated with Plex.tv and then enter them in the static route. Once I do that Im fine and everything works great. And then for some reason the IPs listed on dsnwatch change…so I update my static route IPs and everything works again. Now I can see this happening every once in a while, but the IPs have changes for Plex.tv ALOT lately and I am confused why Plex would want them to change. I am not a network engineer, just a basic IT person. Im confused…can someone please answer as to why Plex.tv changes so much? Thanks

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Remote connections aren’t going through plex.tv but are between the client and server IPs (that is unless there’s an issue with the remote connection and it falls back to an indirect connection – those will indeed run through a Plex relay server).

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I think I should have been more clear…so basically I share my library out and when all the IPs are added for Plex.tv to the static route, everything is green and the library is available outside my network. So my parents can watch stuff no issue. However, when the IPs change, then its no longer available and is red. This makes sense because the Plex.tv IPs have changed and the static route no longer works. When this happens, the Plex traffic is being transported via VPN, not local.

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Are you creating the static routes so that traffic destined to Plex’s server’s (outbound) bypass your VPN? Thereby allowing Plex to detect your public IP correctly, instead of the VPN exit node?

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Yes this sounds like basically what Im doing. I know there are so many other ways to do it. I know that many will respond with this solution. The fact of the matter is that its driving me nuts to know why Plex.tv IPs change so much…just dont understand. I really want to know about this. Thanks

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How often is “so much?” I don’t monitor it at all, but I’m not even sure what I would personally consider frequent.

But I’ve got to think it is due to the fact that (all of? most of?) their services are hosted on AWS.

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they were averaging weekly I would estimate…then the last day or two they have changed almost hourly. I dont mind changing my static route every once in a while, but I am very surprised that it changes at all. I would think they would want to be as stagnate as possible. But maybe Im way off?

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Write a script to detect the changes and add/remove routes as needed. Simple.

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well that sounds great and all, but Im just capable of this. I dont have experience with scripting/programming. Im not a complete idiot, but would need an example script. So not sure how likely that would happen.

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