How did you get around the fact that plex is banned on Hetzner? - ElfHosted / Funky Penguin (2024)

Utilising forwarded ports for PIA, and exposing that as <vpn_ip>:<plex_port> in reverse proxy?

nothing that fancywe just use gluetun on the plex pods for any egressbut any ingress comes in via the traefik LBthe ban only affects "phone home" from plex instances to HQ, and those always originate from the plex server itself, and so are carried over the VPN

gah, messed up my edit - ADVERTISE_IP is part of what makes it "direct" (results seem inconsistent sometimes)

Ahh thats nice 🙂Thanks manDo you block all the plex metrics endpoints etc too? (redirect them to 127.0.0.1)Didn't realise all these were here in git haha

ummwhat metrics endpoints? 🙂yeah, it's all open 🙂

oh, that metrics blocking is a good ideaespecially with their recent "share-with-your-friends" schenanigans

nice, I'll steal that, thanks 🙂

yw ^^

Awesome man 🙂You've a really nice setup here - looking at it all now lol

🙏

why are we blocking metricsunless you think Plex has a giant data warehouse they're using AI to mine for information about your bedroom preferences so they can blackmail you... telemetry is what the developers use to see which stuff is broken, which stuff to cut, and which stuff needs more attention. you're only hurting yourself.not to mention, it's exponentially more expensive to store identifying information like an IP address next to your metrics than it is to aggregate them.

that... is a good point

It always floors me when people are like "why can't we have good software on linux" but the first thing they do when they install software is open the preferences and uncheck the "Send anonymous metrics to the developers to help with software development" box.

well i only suggest it because they collect this as part of the metrics

that data won't be tied to any of the other data.

Yes but is it the ip of the server, or the ip of the client watching?They dont say

server.

Im not bothered about mine being stored - im always on endpoint, but the server is on hetzner which is prohibited by plexhence - why i suggested to block

hetzner bans plex or plex bans hetzner

that is crazy lol

So safer to block in this case as we cannot guarantee whats being collected definitively without packet inspectionAye yeah lolJust a ridiculous decision by them really - literally only hetzner too

they must have been threatened with papers

Aye I think so - there is a massive anti-piracy movement in Germany isn't there

more generally a massive censorship movement across all of europe(and canada, and to some extent, the US)

aye true that

not in au/nz though. bloody dolphins just say anything they want and nobody even pays any attention.

Hahaha - aye NZ seems really good for that tbhLook at KimDotCom - he setup all of mega out there hurled up in his mansion didnt heI'd probably move myself if I could a) convince the missus, move the kids out of school etc, and b) wasn't a severe arachnaphobic lol

nz has its own problems but protecting the right to speech isn't one of them. then again, that's "for now" because the people are docile and could find themselves in a tyrannical government any day.

aye 100%It'll stay that way as long as its profitable for "the man".As soon as something uncomfortable comes up, thats when the political games will start

i'm in texas. i have a house with a fence around it. i can pretty much ignore the political games and know my local government will back me up on making sure they stay outside my fence.also, we can probably beat nz at cricket with a full-time engineer from Oracle on our team.

we only have teeny weeny spiders in NZ. All the big monsters are on the west island (Australia)

How teeny we talking?I saw the movie arachnophobia when I was like 7 or something and to this day 33 years later I still check my shoes every time I go to put them on 😄

Local video store when i was a kid owner was best mates with my grandad so I literally used to just get whatever videos i wantArghwth! lol2.8cm - yep flame thrower tackle

i'll take giant spider that doesn't give you necrosis over tiny black widows any day.

i mean just look at it - it just looks evil

probably eats murder hornets for breakfast though.

lolol