I don't think PLEX is connecting to plex.tv

johnpoz

@dennypage very true.. proxmox normally are VMs your right. But there are a couple of different ways to run docker.. The container word grabbed my attention.

Proxmox does have support for linux containers - which a lighter form of a full vm, etc..

The bottom line more info would help figure what is going on.

jay_k

I definitely appreciate all the feed back. Honestly I would be lost without it.

I am running ProxMox which will host virtual machines and Linux containers. I have Plex and samba each running in their own container. Pfsense has it's own VM, and I have a VM running docker, which is hosting Radarr, Sonarr, Jacket, Ombi, and Deluge. My NAS is ZFS within ProxMox that is shared using the samba container. The system has 3 NICs. Two that are passed straight through to pfsense (LAN and WAN), and the other is shared, or bridged, for everything else. I am still using my night hawk router in AP mode (that is the 10.0.0.1 IP address, pfsense is on 10.0.0.2). It has both pfsense LAN and the shared NIC plugged into it. The WAN obviously goes to my Starlink modem. Each VM and container has it's own static IP, as well as ProxMox and the nighthawk.

The install is pretty basic. I didn't do any DNS setup that I know of. My interface assignments are:

WAN - igb0
LAN - igb1

I do currently have a line added to the DNS resolver custom option:

server: private-domain: "plex.direct"

I'm not sure what else to post up for my configuration. I left everything else as default.

johnpoz

@jay_k said in I don't think PLEX is connecting to plex.tv:

AP mode (that is the 10.0.0.1 IP address

If its in AP mode why would your client be trying to ask it for dns?

communications error to 10.0.0.1#53: connection refused

You should be asking pfsense for dns 10.0.0.2

dennypage

@johnpoz That pretty much explains it.

jay_k

@johnpoz said in I don't think PLEX is connecting to plex.tv:

If its in AP mode why would your client be trying to ask it for dns?
You should be asking pfsense for dns 10.0.0.2

Well, when you put it that way, It's obvious what's wrong. HA! HA!
I feel like I should have caught that.

I changed the DNS server setting in ProxMox to the correct IP and everything works as it should. It was a setting that was left from the old router. I actually tried to have those two IPs the other way around when installing pfsense, but ran into issues.

I still don't know why this caused playback errors for transcoding, but it all works now.

Thanks so much for all the help.