2025-09-17, 12:56 PM
After yet more troubleshooting, I think I figured it out. Maybe. Still needs testing.
The problem all along seems to have been with a commercial VPN application I was running on the host machine.
To be clear, this is used to access a commercial VPN service, this is not the same as the VPN server running on my router (which is used to allow remote clients secure "phone home" ability). I did not think to mention it before, because it did not occur to me (or anyone else, apparently) as relevant.
That commercial VPN application has a feature to allow access to local subnets (outside the VPN pipe, if you will) while connected to the VPN, but it's buggy.
Once I disconnected from the commercial VPN service, remote clients (using the Ubiquiti VPN server) were able to access Jellyfin again.
I don't always have the Jellyfin host machine connected to the commercial VPN. I believe that the seemingly-random periods of Jellyfin access working or not, mentioned above, were exactly those periods.
I'll do more testing and post a follow-up in a week or two.
The problem all along seems to have been with a commercial VPN application I was running on the host machine.
To be clear, this is used to access a commercial VPN service, this is not the same as the VPN server running on my router (which is used to allow remote clients secure "phone home" ability). I did not think to mention it before, because it did not occur to me (or anyone else, apparently) as relevant.
That commercial VPN application has a feature to allow access to local subnets (outside the VPN pipe, if you will) while connected to the VPN, but it's buggy.
Once I disconnected from the commercial VPN service, remote clients (using the Ubiquiti VPN server) were able to access Jellyfin again.
I don't always have the Jellyfin host machine connected to the commercial VPN. I believe that the seemingly-random periods of Jellyfin access working or not, mentioned above, were exactly those periods.
I'll do more testing and post a follow-up in a week or two.