horstepipe 357 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 hey I'm having an Emby server on an Ubuntu vserver. Just caught my eye that in Emby dashboard the "local address" shows the WAN-IP + port of the server. I'm just curious where Emby gets this information from and why it shows the WAN ip as the local one. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 It queries the system's local network adapters and gets their IP addresses. Then if there are multiple it tries to be smart about figuring out which one is the right one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 357 Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 It queries the system's local network adapters and gets their IP addresses. Then if there are multiple it tries to be smart about figuring out which one is the right one. So shouldn't this be overwritten by entering an IP in Advanced -> bind a local network address ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 357 Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 (edited) My point is that although the server is tunneling its traffic through a VPN it exposes its original IP here. (e.g. It is written in the data.txt file of the Emby for Kodi plugin) Edited November 30, 2016 by horstepipe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 357 Posted November 30, 2016 Author Share Posted November 30, 2016 @@Luke is there something that can be done about this lack of privacy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted December 1, 2016 Share Posted December 1, 2016 Thank you for the report. VPN's and proxies can sometimes make the address detection a little tricky. We will look to improve it for a future release of Emby Server. Thanks ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 357 Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 Thank you for the report. VPN's and proxies can sometimes make the address detection a little tricky. We will look to improve it for a future release of Emby Server. Thanks ! thank you, but isn't the option "Advanced -> bind a local network address" supposed to solve my problem or is it for another use case? Best regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Yes it could probably be used for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horstepipe 357 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 Yes it could probably be used for that. Works now as expected in v3.1.252. Thank you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke 37251 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Thanks for confirming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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