Remote Access - No Route to Host

[Osorus 15]

Hello. A very satisfied user of Emby. Thank you to those that put a lot of hard work into a beautifully crafted app.

 

My issue started 3 days ago. No remote access.

 

Troubleshooting:

In-Home access is visible.

Static route is still in place.

Port forwarding confirmed.

VPN is used when testing Remote access.

I have reviewed and followed the MediaBrowser Connectivity article.

Firewall is not blocking anything related to Media Server nor the serverapp.exe

I have troubleshot with the previous install, and with a fresh install. No luck

It would appear there is no route to host

 

Anyone have any suggestions as to what the next step would be? Thank you in advance.

[Luke 38803]

Hi there, welcome. Sorry to hear about this. For simplicity's sake, have you tested this without the vpn just to limit the number of variables?

[Osorus 15]

I failed to mention that. Yes. I used LTE to attempt access, with no results.

[Luke 38803]

What about the canyouseeme test?

[Osorus 15]

The screenshot from my initial post is directly from canyouseeme test.

[Happy2Play 9140]

So is the dashboard showing your vpn address or your local WAN address?

[Osorus 15]

In context to "VPN", I was using VPN and LTE to test remote access. My dashboard is showing the proper IPs for both the LAN and WAN.

[Luke 38803]

Something is obviously blocking it somewhere along the chain. Are other devices inside your internal network able to connect?

[Osorus 15]

Yes. Everything within the LAN are able to communicate with no issue. It would appear to only be anything outside the WAN with issue.

[ebr 15426]

Yes. Everything within the LAN are able to communicate with no issue. It would appear to only be anything outside the WAN with issue.

 

So that points directly to your router and its configuration.

[Osorus 15]

Sigh. I just factory reset my router and rebuilt everything. Seemed to wipe the slate clean. I am back up. Don't know what the real issue was. Don't care at this point. Thanks all!

[Osorus 15]

@CBW - Yes. But I honestly don't know what. I came to the same conclusion as well. Above response was what did it for me. Thanks sir.

[Luke 38803]

Interesting, thanks for the info. You said you had already checked port forwarding before and verified there was a valid rule. I wonder if there either multiple rules on the same port, or you picked UDP by accident instead of TCP, or if the ip address on the rule was not correct. 

[Osorus 15]

I typically use both as the option. Only issue i could think of was my layout. Which, it doesnt explain why it worked before the issue presented itself.

 

ISP router ---> wifi router ---> switch ---> server

 

Since the issue: i reinstalled Emby, ensured port forwarding was active on the wifi router. Rebooted PC, wifi router, and ISP. Nothing...

 

I monitored for any traffic to port 8096. Nothing. Monitored traffic from the ISP, still didnt see anything. Said "screw it" and factory reset the ISP router, unplugged the server from the switch, direct connect into the ISP, rebuilt routes/ports, and presto. I'm alive. Didn't want to press my luck any further. It's not Emby at fault, this I know. Just curious what kept the connection alive prior to 4 days ago, and why such a drastic change in hardware and software (on my end) to bring everything back up.

Edited October 24, 2016 by MajorOsorus

[tboneynot 2]

I know this is an old topic, but this thread just provided me the solution for a problem I've been working on for 4 hours.  Thank you all very much!

[Luke 38803]

Hi, thanks for the feedback !

[Chompy Lompy 0]

Ugh! Suddenly my remote wan address on my embody dashboard is 71.183.53 etc!! How do I change it to 192.68 etc which is what I need. On the linksys router website I cannot change the 71.183 into 192.68 because those boxes are locked in. Any thoughts? I already factory reset my router and restarted my computer.

[ebr 15426]

Ugh! Suddenly my remote wan address on my embody dashboard is 71.183.53 etc!! How do I change it to 192.68 etc which is what I need. On the linksys router website I cannot change the 71.183 into 192.68 because those boxes are locked in. Any thoughts? I already factory reset my router and restarted my computer.

 

Hi.  192.168.*.* is a local address range.  It cannot be a remote address.

 

Your remote address is usually set by your provider and may change at any time (unless you pay them for a static IP).

 

What is the actual issue you are having that is leading you to believe there is something wrong here?