I cannot see how this could be plex. The port forward is in the router. Plex is not making any adjustments to the router configuration when a manually specified port is used.
what are you referring to here ?
Are you referring to the port forward ?
The port forward to 32400 is TCP
The only thing out of the ordinary showing in your Plex Media Server logs was that connections were to a hostname / domain name - http://juno:32400 - i do not know if this has a bearing on the problem
And if you do an nslookup on juno - you will find a hit within the global DNS
I don’t get a responce from nslooup for Juno - I did try renaming the PC to something different, but got no different response.
When I get the chance I’m going to do a factory reset of the router.
Yes, a port forward rule. RuleName/Device(or IP address)/ExtPortStart/ExtPordEnd/IntPortStart/IntPortEnd/ (TCP/IP | TCP | UDP)
Server: google-public-dns-a.google.com
Address: 8.8.8.8
*** google-public-dns-a.google.com can’t find juno: Non-existent domain
So, what I’ve done is use a secondary Wifi point I had - the BT Router is now being used for DHCP/DNS and Internet routing - wifi turned off completely.
So it seems that there is an issue that has just appeared regarding the router - not sure if this issue has always been there, and just never caused an problem, or if a windows update has made it become an issue, or if BT have sent firmware updates that have made it happen too, or if a plex update somewhere makes it happen …
The issues seems to be routing between Wifi<->LAN when the plex server has a port open, possibly a windows/router issue, as it seems fine on embedded devices, or possibly a router/plex issue as nothing else is exhibiting the issue.
My understanding of Plex, is that trying to connect via a “Plex player” also connects to plex.tv - so it may be something related to the route back.
But you have tested already, have you not, a laptop on wifi only on the local network to connect to the server directly using http://ip-of-server:32400/web ?
The hosted Plex Web app (https://app.plex.tv/desktop) is external but mobile apps run locally and just ask plex.tv for the connection routes to the owned and shared servers
Yes, that is true, I have tried to connect directly via a webprowser to `http://ip-of-server:32400/web - and the first thing that gets asked is the “code” for the seperate users I have, so it must contact straight out to display those?
Just checking, going to http://ip-of-server:32400/web also creates connections tp plex.tv, pubsub.plex.tv, analytics.plex.tx, podcasts.plex.tv - this is before I’ve put the usercode to logon.
not sure what’s causing it, but the wifi client is connecting to your local address, and then trying to use your external address and failing. I would assume your network is preventing traffic from looping back in this manner, perhaps related to AP isolation.
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