2023-12-01, 08:35 PM
(This post was last modified: 2023-12-01, 08:38 PM by unshavendillon. Edited 1 time in total.)
Sidenotes, I am completely amateurish when it comes to networking, but I understand many basic aspects of networking and understand the concepts behind some more "advanced" features. One of my goals is a NAS soon for my household, but, alas, money
My ISP doesn't allow static IPs for residential.
After getting it up and running locally, I wanted to be able to share it with friends via a domain.
I started by testing it by opening up 8096. BUT the problem is from dynamic IP
After giving my friends the ip:port to test is when I found out I had a dynamic IP as I never really had much reason to go hunting for it regularly (naturally my WAN to my PC is static)
So I went on a mission to figure out something with my incredibly limited knowledge.
The first thing I went for was nginx, but between using docker and other necessary systems, I was having issues maintaining connection.
So I found this post on the official (and essentially defunct which is why I am here) subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen...in_server/
I followed it to a tee (including freeing up 80 and 443 but they keep closing for some reason) making sure to replace the necessary port information and system information. Even got caddy up and going successfully and have viewed in real time Dynu functioning as a DDNS as intended. Simultaneously I grabbed a GoDaddy domain for a year real cheap, and was looking forward to using that.
My issue, (and maybe the main issue here?) is understanding exactly the difference between example.com and your.ddns.url in the tutorial. I understand that your.ddns.url is found from the control panel for Dynu, and it's the one that I bought from GoDaddy, but how is example.com different?
Regardless, my CNAME is set up as name: player - data: example.me assuming that it would be player.example.me. And when typed in that works in a web browser just bringing me to a GoDaddy page.
But in Jellyfin, it does nothing. Same for just plain example.me
I can still connect by my IP in Jellyfin just fine remotely, and hopefully it stays that way if I sat it up correctly and it doesn't become dynamic again.
Jellyfin is all set to 8096, the known proxies is set to just my domain (example.me) and remote is allowed. So I'm not sure what the issue is.
Any help would be appreciated.
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P.S. When I turn my VPN on, my IP connection still functions as normal, but when I engage the killswitch jellyfin stops working altogether but my local internet is still active, why is that?
My ISP doesn't allow static IPs for residential.
After getting it up and running locally, I wanted to be able to share it with friends via a domain.
I started by testing it by opening up 8096. BUT the problem is from dynamic IP
After giving my friends the ip:port to test is when I found out I had a dynamic IP as I never really had much reason to go hunting for it regularly (naturally my WAN to my PC is static)
So I went on a mission to figure out something with my incredibly limited knowledge.
The first thing I went for was nginx, but between using docker and other necessary systems, I was having issues maintaining connection.
So I found this post on the official (and essentially defunct which is why I am here) subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/jellyfin/commen...in_server/
I followed it to a tee (including freeing up 80 and 443 but they keep closing for some reason) making sure to replace the necessary port information and system information. Even got caddy up and going successfully and have viewed in real time Dynu functioning as a DDNS as intended. Simultaneously I grabbed a GoDaddy domain for a year real cheap, and was looking forward to using that.
My issue, (and maybe the main issue here?) is understanding exactly the difference between example.com and your.ddns.url in the tutorial. I understand that your.ddns.url is found from the control panel for Dynu, and it's the one that I bought from GoDaddy, but how is example.com different?
Regardless, my CNAME is set up as name: player - data: example.me assuming that it would be player.example.me. And when typed in that works in a web browser just bringing me to a GoDaddy page.
But in Jellyfin, it does nothing. Same for just plain example.me
I can still connect by my IP in Jellyfin just fine remotely, and hopefully it stays that way if I sat it up correctly and it doesn't become dynamic again.
Jellyfin is all set to 8096, the known proxies is set to just my domain (example.me) and remote is allowed. So I'm not sure what the issue is.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
P.S. When I turn my VPN on, my IP connection still functions as normal, but when I engage the killswitch jellyfin stops working altogether but my local internet is still active, why is that?
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