Bummer. I think I am out of ideas, sorry I couldn’t be of more help.

As you’ve described it, and from what I have read, its very similar to how tailscale negotiates its connections.

Does seem to be unique to Plex though.

I get how that could work, but what services actually do that? Homeassistant can, but that needs to be setup explicitly for it to work.

I just assumed that it might have been designed to been to release the tabs. Guess not. I wonder how they got them on in the first place 🤷

How does that work? Do they do something like what tailscale does to negotiate the connection? Can you point me to any doco for how that works?

I dont know that that is true. With cloudflare tunnels, their server.x.y.z will resolve to a cloudlfare IP address, which then tunnels it to their server? The traffic has to hit the cloudflare server, it can’t short circuit that connection? Am I missing something?

I would assume yes, it goes out to cloudflare and back in. You want to setup an internal DNS server on your network, and resolve your servers address to its local one. That way when your outside your network, you use the tunnel, and inside it goes direct.

Can you get your fingers between the clear plastic and the door and bend it enough to make it unhook?

Just a guess, I dont have one of these fridges.

1. You can’t receive those emails anymore.

2. Someone else can.

Yes and no. Yes, it’s old and should be upgraded ideally. No in that the Linux market share is so miniscule that targeting 20.04 or other out of support linuxes isnt as favourable as targeting Windows.

Also, the support/security update critique also applies to the community run distros as well, given they may not have the resources to keep up with security updates.

So yeah, my risk is increasing, but I dont feel anywhere near at risk as one of the 0.43% win XP machines still floating around…

Stats from here, no idea how accurate they are: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

Its a VM, that has a working toolchain. I am very comfortable that its safe within my environment, but in general, you’re all correct, it ideally would be upgraded.

I3 on Ubuntu.

Dont update unless required. Still using an 20.04 machine. As long as I can do my job, I dont need to chase the latest updates.

Yeah, agreed, it felt like a different show after S3. Still some good episodes in there though.

Thats fair, I just like the show :)

Misfits is a personal favourite show that explores some of those themes.

LLM left to its own devices.

Right, thats fair, I guess VPN is a red herring then, if the service is available over the internet directly.

I think I am out of ideas sadly, beyond it being some kind of weird ISP fuckery :/

Maybe do a traceroute between your mate and your server and vice-versa (without VPN), just to make sure your packets aren’t getting sent somewhere odd. Some time ago I had a friend who was physically 5km away, have his packets routed 2000km away, which kinda impacted throughput.

Are you sure? That sounds exactly like what tailscale and headscale are good for, letting your friends have near direct access to a server within your network. (Headscale is self-hosted tailscale, bypasses account limits, but is otherwise the same thing).

You setup your server as an endpoint on your tailscale network, and then give all your friends tailscale accounts to setup their devices on the same network. They’ll be able to talk directly to your server over a wireguard tunnel. (Caveat: cgnat can break tailscales tunnelling and cause your traffic to get relayed, which is slow. Headscale let’s you run the relay which will be faster, but it still sucks as bit).

You probably did explain it correctly, Im not the best reader :).

You could try tailscale for a direct VPN to your server, see if that bypasses the free tier vpn issues? Tailscale will route your traffic directly between your two points, instead of via a server, so it might save some routing overhead? Its also free if that helps.

So, not a VPN to the homelab (tailscale/wireguard/etc)?

Google/reddit suggests windscribe can be pretty slow, and proton VPN free tier is slow. Are you getting good results through them to regular speedtest?