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Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

submitted 1 day ago by otters_raft@lemmy.ca to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Plex is starting to enforce its new rules, which prevent users from remotely accessing a personal media server without a subscription fee.

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[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

~~I don't think simply forwarding the port actually works with free Plex anymore. I think if the server has a different public IP from the client it asks you to pay, even if you're connecting to the server over LAN.~~

Edit: That doesn't appear to be true. I'm not entirely sure how Plex is checking whether you're trying to stream remotely. In my case at least it works if I connect to my server using the LAN IP, but not if I use DNS (even though it resolves to the same IP). Maybe I'm missing something to allow it to work using the hostname.

[–] Chewy7324@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Interesting, maybe they check whether it's a domain/remote IP on the client side to prevent usage of a reverse proxy.

[–] horse@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

I checked the logs and it said it was assuming a remote connection because there was an unknown hostname in the headers (I forget the exact wording). It was because the hostname I was using didn't match the hostname configured in the server's OS (one I set up on my local DNS server).