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Ansible playbook for automated home media server setup
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Plex container external access not working #19

Closed sferguson524 closed 1 year ago

sferguson524 commented 1 year ago

Greetings,

Looks like when enabling plex for external access, it's stuck using the media net for outbound traffic.. I have the port NATted in my firewall, and an ACL set to allow the traffic thru to the docker host IP. An NMAP scan shows that port as closed/filtered.. wondering if traefik is screwing me up somehow.

ahembree commented 1 year ago

The media_net is only used for internal communication between the individual containers, the container should be listening on port 32400/TCP on all interfaces available on the container since there is no IP defined in the ports section of the compose file for the Plex container.

This means you just need to port forward port 32400/TCP externally (or your port of choice) to the Plex servers internal IP and port 32400/TCP. But it looks like you've already done this part.

I don't believe Traefik would be causing issues externally as Traefik only runs on ports 80/443.

Since the external Plex service (I believe) only hits <external_IP>:32400 directly, it would bypass Traefik as it doesn't hit the HTTP/S ports.

ahembree commented 1 year ago

I would also try using an external port scan tool, such as https://canyouseeme.org/ and see if it reports the port as being open. If not, maybe a router reboot is necessary to apply the port forward change?

I've had slight issues in the past where Plex reports it cannot connect to my server, but then I try it again and it works.

sferguson524 commented 1 year ago

bah! I found it.. Ubiquiti moved the NAT rules and I missed it when I cut over from my old plex server: