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This is great news! Not only does this make a remote Plex / Jellyfin media server easier to deal with, the Apple TV can be an exit node. Solid work, TailScale!

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I'm a little unfamiliar with how Plex routing works. Would this make it so that your plex connected media servers don't need to be publicly routabel and the Plex app will know to connect through the tailscale network?

Would you need to reconfigure plex to use the tailscale ip addresses and then the Apple TX Plex app will stream over that address?

Depends on how you’ve setup Plex, but you can give it custom access URLs. So you can expose both a public and a private endpoint. Or just a private endpoint, up to you really.

I wrote up a guide [1] on using Plex + Tailscale + HTTPS last year to setup Plex so you don't have to expose it through the Plex relays or setup port forwards for other devices on a Tailnet.

I would assume with this announcement, you can keep Plex private to your Tailnet and an AppleTV also on the Tailnet could use it without any port fowarding.

1. https://forums.plex.tv/t/remote-access-using-tailscale-magic...

>setup port forwards for other devices on a Tailnet.

Ah. Now I get it.

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