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plessers@gmail.com

Hello,

Yesterday I noticed on my router that my there was a lot of “internet” traffic. I was surprised about this, but after some testing and sniffing, I saw that my Client PC was accessing my server at the “outside” of the router (see routing on image). No real consumption of my bandwidth at my he ISP side, but  still, all traffic is passed through the router...

 

This means also

  • Single Point of failure
  • Bandwidth of router is shared by all clients. I have a Gb-router, but this can be a problem with older routers
  • Monitoring of bandwidth at router is not representative anymore and all my graphs are messed up. Monitoring figures don't match information I see at my ISP

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I used to work with Plex, and they have a very clever setup for this:
(for more information, see https://blog.filippo.io/how-plex-is-doing-https-for-all-its-users/)

On my router:
Dnsmasq -> Custom configuration ->

rebind-domain-ok=/plex.direct/
local-ttl=1

 

 

I tried to change my router to

rebind-domain-ok=/plex.direct/tv.emby.media/app.emby.media/
local-ttl=1

 

 

but this didn’t help.

 

So my question here is: is it possible to configure my EMBY-server in the same was as my PLEX-server so that my clients have a direct connection to my server instead of going to the public url? Oh, and I only want to use one url for my browsers, i.e. http://tv.emby.media/#!/plugins/defaultskin/home.html...

 

 

Thanx in advance,

Bart

 

 

 

 

 

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Koleckai Silvestri

I don't have this problem and connect directly to my server's internal IP of 10.0.0.4. Maybe this is an issue if you use Emby Connect. I don't use Emby Connect.

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It's supposed to do that already with connect by first testing your local address for connectivity, however if by chance you entered a manual address then it will always do that.

 

the dnsmasq method you mentioned is interesting too, so if you can get a prototype of that working, we can look into it.

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JeremyFr79

I just setup a DNS entry in my DNS server for all my stuff that way everything get's routed properly internally and externally as needed.

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plessers@gmail.com

@luke: the problem is, when I go to the new web interface at http://tv.emby.media/index.html, I'mI in a kind of a loop:

- I get a PIN

-  on another browser window, I go to https://emby.media/pin.html, login and enter that PIN

- in the first window, I'm redirected to http://tv.emby.media/index.html#!/startup/selectserver.html,but my server is NOT displayed:

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- If I select Emby Connect, I'm goint to first step of this procedure...

- if I select "new server", I have to add my server manually

 

Here I have to choose between public name, or internal IP-adres. 

 

Is this a bug?

 

I was expecting that -after accepting the PIN- my server was resolved automatically, and if on the same network, the internal IP was used.

 

bart

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gstuartj

I do something similar to @@JeremyFr79, but what I do is set up a cname in DNSmasq on my router so that the public address points to the local address within my network. Here's an example configuration line:

 

cname=public.domain.example,machinename.lan

 

All local clients are automatically routed directly to the local server address.

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plessers@gmail.com

Hello to everybody,

 

I have to come back on this.

 

@@Luke suggested me in another topic to try the interface on "https://tv.emby.media/".

Till now, I was experimenting locally to my embyserver, but if I want to use "https://tv.emby.media/",the above problem still rises.

 

All network trafic is send trough my router twice (uploading AND downloading). 

If I use fiddler, I see all my trafic going to https://mydomain:8920

 

This could be done smarter:

- let emby detect if server and client are on same subnet

- if this is the case, let server give local IP as sources instead of public dns name

 

This is something that that other medaserver Plex does:

- if I go to http://app.plex.tv/web/app#

- and if I fiddle my network traffic, I see

- connections are made to https://xxx-xxx-xxx-xxxx.69948de6a51145a5be0623b766969880.plex.direct:32400, where

 xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx is my local IP of my server

- my router is configured so that:

          rebind-domain-ok=/plex.direct/
          local-ttl=1

- so if I ping from my client to to 192-168-4-11.69948de6a51145a5be0623b766969880.plex.direct

  I get response from 192.168.4.11 (IP address of my local server)

 

So no network traffic passes my router.

 

 

I this something that can be considered on emby?

 

Kind regards,

Bart

 

 

 

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When you use tv.emby.media it will connect locally when possible. Try the http version.

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plessers@gmail.com

Hi Luke,

 

Just did the test:

- connect to http://tv.emby.media

- login with emby connect

- added my server http://mydomain:8098 (I'm running on a different port)

- logged in to my server with local account and pass

 

If I snif my network traffic, all requests are done to http://mydomain, wich means the PUBLIC side of my router. Thus traffic passing trough router and back again.

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This can easily be seen on the router itself: when playing a movie, traffic is taken into account, so network traffic is following my "green path" (see original picture)

 

Kind regards,

Bart

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And I just tested as well - no problem found, worked as expected.

 

The point being, it will always try to connect to the local lan address that is listed on the emby server dashboard. It will only switch to remote if that fails, or if you originally connected by manually entering a specific address. if you did a manual address then it will always use that particular value.

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plessers@gmail.com

Hi Luke,

 

I don't understand that.

What am I doing wrong?

Here are my settings:

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As I said before, here are the steps connecting to http://tv.emby.media from an internal client (on same network segment as server)

 

connect to http://tv.emby.media

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logon with emby connect account

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add server

 

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enter public domainname and port

 

 

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logon with local account:

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enter libraries:

 

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however, on my client:

 

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so I can't see any traffic going to my server directly....

 

What am I doing wrong?

 

Sincerely

Bart

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Yes, you must have manually entered an ip address during the connection process, in which case that is always the first address used.

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plessers@gmail.com

Hello Luke,

 

I don't get this.

 

On my home PC on local network

- logged in with emby connect user

- I removed server from my server list

- added server again with local IP

 

Connected to other PC on external network

- logged in with same emby connect user

- NO servers are listed

 

so how can I connect to my server from an external PC?

From what I know right now:

- I can add my server based on local IP -> it's working on local subnet and streaming is done peer-to-peer

OR

- I can add server based on public DNS name --> it's working on local subnet AND external subnet, but streaming is done, based on public DNS name. So again: networkflow according to my original picture.

 

Can you confirm this?

 

Kind regards,

Bart

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I would use Emby Connect. The server is probably not listed anymore due to you removing it.

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plessers@gmail.com

Luke,

can you elaborate this a little bit more?

 

I AM using Emby Connect, and added the server with it's IP address.

Also: logging on from another PC with Emby Connect, does NOT list my server at all...

 

Maybe there is something wrong with Emby Connect? Or with my profile?

 

Bart

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I AM using Emby Connect, and added the server with it's IP address.

 

If you are manually adding a server by IP you are not using Emby Connect.

 

Try re-linking the user in the server dashboard or recreating it if it is a guest.

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plessers@gmail.com

Indeed,

 

what happened:

- I added a new user to my server(s)

- made this user admin (because admin sees all libraries, me as "normal" user only want to see few of them)

- I forgot to add the admin email adress to it's profile

--> things went wrong here

 

- so using Emby connect, I had to add the server manually

- and of course connection was made by the url added

 

However:

- after using Emby connect correctly (thus email user configured at server, invitement accepted)

- I had to clear all my caches of my browser. Somehow, settings were cached and even after using Emby Connect, I still was using the public domain name

- I started incognito session --> local IP was used

- I cleard all caches --> everything works as designed now: using local IP's on local subnet, using public domain name on wan.

 

thanx all for your patience and support,

much appreciated!

 

Bart

 

 

Just one suggestion: in the whole discussion above, I was confused and NOT using Emby Connect, although I followed the procedure on screen (see above), witch clearly indicates : to use Emby Connect, visit https://emby.media/pin and enter pincode. So by doing this, I thought I was using connect, but clearly not. My mistake, but I guess some other user may also be in this situation...

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Swynol

i use a static-hostname on my router which points to my internal IP. so for example emby.mydomain.com. If i am internal it goes to 192.168.10.10:8096. if i am external i have a cname with my registrar which points it to my DDNS.

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plessers@gmail.com

@swynol: this would be a solution if all my public services were running on same server. internally, but I have some other servers with different IP's, but with same public name...

 

anyway, thanx for response!

B

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Swynol

@swynol: this would be a solution if all my public services were running on same server. internally, but I have some other servers with different IP's, but with same public name...

 

anyway, thanx for response!

B

 

i have many public services on my lan. 

 

for example internally -

emby.mydomain.com  --> 192.168.10.10

sophos.mydomain.com --> 192.168.10.9

etc

 

then externally

emby.mydomain.com --> CNAME to DDNS --> DDNS AAA record to my WAN IP port 443 ---> NGINX reverse proxy --> 192.168.10.10

sophos.mydomain.com --> CNAME to DDNS --> DDNS AAA Record to my WAN IP port 443 --> NGINS reverse proxy --> 192.168.10.9

 

i have another 10-15 services on my LAN which i can access Internally using the same URL as external however it doesnt get routed externally. 

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plessers@gmail.com

yep, but in my setup: everything is routed to https://MyOneAndOnlyPublicDomainName:xyz. Depending on port, a reverse proxy is forwarding requests to different internal IP's. So this is a bit more difficult to use a HOST file of diff.DINS for the routing internally. But you're right, maybe I should use starting different DNS names...

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pir8radio

yep, but in my setup: everything is routed to https://MyOneAndOnlyPublicDomainName:xyz. Depending on port, a reverse proxy is forwarding requests to different internal IP's. So this is a bit more difficult to use a HOST file of diff.DINS for the routing internally. But you're right, maybe I should use starting different DNS names...

 

The reason for reverse proxy, is in your case say you have 10 "services" running you have 10 ports on your firewall open, and that's 10 security risks.   With nginx or some other reverse proxy, you usually open http and https (80 & 443) then you just give your services names either like    service1.domain.com   or domain.com/service1 The second is harder to setup and maintain in my opinion.   The back-end services will still be using the ports you assigned them so you can switch back easily or run nginx and the way you are doing it today side by side as a test.     service1.domain.com:80---->nginx--->service1:8374    and so on.

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plessers@gmail.com

@@Swynol, @@pir8radio,

 

thanx for input.

This was a project that I had been postponed for a long time, but with your feedback, I spended some time to it.

Glad I did.

So for now:

- running tomato software on a ASUS-RT-N18U router

- port forwarding 80 to IP of router

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NGINX is currently running on router

NGINX HTTP Section Custom configuration

 

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Custom settings:

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app1.mydomain.org;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://InternalIP-App1:80/;
    }
}


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app2.mydomain.org;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://InternalIP-App2:80/;
    }
}


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app3.mydomain.org;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://InternalIP-App3:32400/;
    }
}


server {
    listen 80;
    server_name app4.mydomain.org;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://InternalIP-App4:8096/;
    }
}

Everythings works smoothly now and I can access my services over http with their own app-subdomain.

 

 

 

 

I am planning to do this also with https, but currently struggling with certificates

I have a config running (cert.pem and cert.key are internally generated on the router if you enable admin over https, see also http://blog.nguyenvq.com/blog/tag/reverse-proxy/ )

server {
   listen 443;
   ssl on;
   ssl_certificate  /tmp/etc/cert.pem;
   ssl_certificate_key  /tmp/etc/key.pem;

   ssl_session_timeout  5m;
   ssl_protocols TLSv1 TLSv1.1 TLSv1.2;
   ssl_prefer_server_ciphers on;
   ssl_ciphers "EECDH+ECDSA+AESGCM EECDH+aRSA+AESGCM EECDH+ECDSA+SHA384 EECDH+ECDSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+SHA384 EECDH+aRSA+SHA256 EECDH+aRSA+RC4 EECDH EDH+aRSA RC4 !aNULL !eNULL !LOW !3DES !MD5 !EXP !PSK !SRP !DSS";

location / {
     proxy_pass http://InternalIP:32400;
     proxy_redirect http://InternalIP:32400/ $scheme://$host:$server_port/;
   }
}

This works, but you get an certificate error of course.

I have certificates (Let's Encrypt) for all my app subdomains, but still need to covert them from *.pfx to *.cert/key.pem

 

Anybody experience with that?

 

Another question: can you do the same thing with https as with http? Listen on SAME port (443) for different domains and different certificates? How should my config look like?

Can I do this:

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Is this possible?

 

Kind regards,

Bart

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