Emby on vserver: local address shows wan IP

[horstepipe 422]

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

 

[Luke 42077]

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.

[horstepipe 422]

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 ?

[horstepipe 422]

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

[horstepipe 422]

@@Luke

is there something that can be done about this lack of privacy?

[Luke 42077]

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 !

[horstepipe 422]

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

[Luke 42077]

Yes it could probably be used for that.

[horstepipe 422]

Yes it could probably be used for that.

Works now as expected in v3.1.252.

Thank you!

[Luke 42077]

Thanks for confirming.