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[1252.60 --> 1254.20] From there, that then
[1254.20 --> 1256.00] points to a traffic
[1256.00 --> 1257.12] instance that's running on
[1257.12 --> 1257.94] the same server as
[1257.94 --> 1258.28] Plex.
[1259.00 --> 1260.22] And from there, it does a
[1260.22 --> 1261.72] standard reverse proxy
[1261.72 --> 1263.54] thing and just does the
[1263.54 --> 1265.32] remote access as if I was
[1265.32 --> 1267.16] going through port 32400
[1267.16 --> 1269.08] like I was last month.
[1269.56 --> 1271.78] Very easy fix and I highly
[1271.78 --> 1272.76] recommend you take a look
[1272.76 --> 1273.16] into that.
[1273.16 --> 1274.06] That's a great idea
[1274.06 --> 1275.36] because Netscout said that
[1275.36 --> 1276.30] after a scan they
[1276.30 --> 1277.20] conducted, they found
[1277.20 --> 1279.26] about 27,000 servers on
[1279.26 --> 1280.06] the internet that can be
[1280.06 --> 1281.08] abused this way.
[1281.80 --> 1283.16] So it doesn't mean you
[1283.16 --> 1284.00] have to shut off remote
[1284.00 --> 1286.46] Plex, but it does mean
[1286.46 --> 1287.18] you should probably take
[1287.18 --> 1287.96] some steps to protect
[1287.96 --> 1288.30] yourself.
[1288.72 --> 1289.50] Yeah, just put it behind
[1289.50 --> 1290.24] a reverse proxy.
[1290.40 --> 1291.00] I mean, it doesn't have
[1291.00 --> 1291.46] to be traffic.
[1291.62 --> 1292.28] It could be Nginx.
[1292.38 --> 1292.84] It could be whatever.
[1293.22 --> 1296.02] But just don't open any
[1296.02 --> 1296.84] ports in your firewall.
[1296.96 --> 1297.96] You absolutely don't
[1297.96 --> 1298.44] need to.
[1298.92 --> 1300.18] Which actually brings me
[1300.18 --> 1301.62] very nicely onto a very,
[1301.76 --> 1302.48] very quick bit of
[1302.48 --> 1303.14] follow up about the
[1303.14 --> 1304.36] WireGuard rant I had
[1304.36 --> 1306.08] last week on OpenSense.
[1307.24 --> 1308.94] Turns out, like an
[1308.94 --> 1312.02] idiot, I set a slash 16
[1312.02 --> 1313.96] subnet in my DHCP server.
[1314.82 --> 1315.48] Now for those that don't
[1315.48 --> 1316.60] know, what that means is
[1316.60 --> 1319.96] every address from 192.168.0
[1319.96 --> 1323.70] all the way up to 192.168.255
[1323.70 --> 1326.56] was within my DHCP range.
[1326.70 --> 1328.74] So I had 65,000 or whatever
[1328.74 --> 1330.24] DHCP addresses available.
[1331.24 --> 1332.92] The upshot of that was when
[1332.92 --> 1334.24] I was trying to route through
[1334.24 --> 1337.50] WireGuard, I was doing a 192.168.13
[1337.50 --> 1338.54] subnet.
[1339.16 --> 1341.54] And so the remote servers were
[1341.54 --> 1343.64] hearing that were receiving the
[1343.64 --> 1344.88] commands from my laptop or my
[1344.88 --> 1345.42] phone or whatever.
[1345.92 --> 1347.66] But they didn't know how to route
[1347.66 --> 1349.68] back to the client device because
[1349.68 --> 1351.14] as far as they were concerned, the
[1351.14 --> 1352.70] slash 16 overrode everything and
[1352.70 --> 1353.72] it just thought everything was on
[1353.72 --> 1354.08] the LAN.
[1354.08 --> 1357.02] So what I did was I changed the
[1357.02 --> 1360.12] subnet of the WireGuard VPN to a
[1360.12 --> 1361.12] 10.something.
[1361.74 --> 1362.94] So it was a completely different
[1362.94 --> 1365.14] subnet and I reduced my slash 16
[1365.14 --> 1367.14] down to a more manageable slash 20.
[1367.62 --> 1368.92] So I've only got a few thousand, like
[1368.92 --> 1370.98] 4,000 addresses now instead of
[1370.98 --> 1371.96] 65,000.
[1372.08 --> 1373.38] I think that should tie me over for a
[1373.38 --> 1373.72] bit, right?
[1374.08 --> 1374.60] Nicely done.
[1375.02 --> 1376.58] I definitely always suggest if
[1376.58 --> 1379.30] people can, different subnets for
[1379.30 --> 1381.68] the different VPN endpoints makes it
[1381.68 --> 1383.90] so much simpler, you know, and I've
[1383.90 --> 1385.40] tried, I've tried to do that myself
[1385.40 --> 1387.84] so many times because it can solve
[1387.84 --> 1390.76] you just a few simple problems and
[1390.76 --> 1392.74] keeps it a little clear in your
[1392.74 --> 1393.02] head.
[1393.18 --> 1396.12] Like I know that the studio is .4
[1396.12 --> 1399.84] and home is .7 and the WireGuard
[1399.84 --> 1401.42] network is actually a .10 network.
[1401.54 --> 1402.50] It's all separated out.
[1402.86 --> 1402.96] Yeah.
[1403.02 --> 1404.20] So I just wanted to be absolutely
[1404.20 --> 1406.16] clear that the problem was the user
[1406.16 --> 1408.50] not OpenSense or WireGuard.
[1408.60 --> 1409.80] It was totally my fault.
[1409.80 --> 1412.92] And I owe a huge debt of gratitude to
[1412.92 --> 1414.18] one of our listeners who reached out
[1414.18 --> 1418.04] to me on Discord and did a screen