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Surya Wijaya
Surya Wijaya

Reputation: 11

Plex VPN port forwarded properly but not accessible

TL;DR version at the bottom.

My ISP gives me a private IP (10 48 64 1) and I'm unable to do any port forwarding.

My setup: Debian Wheezy Linux headless Server

Asuswrt-merlin router(latest version)

AirVPN via Openvpn

With some reading, some VPN allow port forwarding to be done. So I went ahead with AirVPN and it worked great (for torrent). I tried to port forward Plex Media Server unfortunately it doesn't work.

Port Forward in AirVPN (24253 is for torrent and 61477 is for Plex with local port of 32400)

Even Plex says that it works!

I was told to do some forwarding on IPtables on my router, so I went ahead with these codes (got it from AirVPN forum)

#!/bin/sh

iptables -I FORWARD -i tun11 -p udp -d 192.168.2.140 --match multiport --dports 24253,32400,61477 -j ACCEPT
iptables -I FORWARD -i tun11 -p tcp -d 192.168.2.140 --match multiport --dports 24253,32400,61477 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i tun11 -p tcp --match multiport --dports 24253,32400,61477 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.140
iptables -t nat -I PREROUTING -i tun11 -p udp --match multiport --dports 24253,32400,61477 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.2.140

With this, somehow my router shows blank on the PREROUTING (but port is opened based on what I see from torrent and canyouseeme org)

With this everything should be set up, no problem and it be visible from outside, but unfortunately it doesn't. I tried from work to view my plex but it keeps saying 'connecting'.

All I can think now is the problem lies in the linux part (firewall maybe?)

I'm stuck for a few days and googling doesn't seem to help anymore.

Thanks for reading! I hope it can be solved.

TL;DR version

I'm connected to VPN but I have forwarded properly (canyouseeme org says it's opened) but Plex says cannot be viewed from outside network (keep connecting).

Upvotes: 0

Views: 870

Answers (1)

Surya Wijaya
Surya Wijaya

Reputation: 11

Nevermind! I made the mistake by not changing the port back to 61477 which was for Plex. I used torrent's port and hence why it wasn't working.

Upvotes: 1

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