• m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    I just use a free dynamic DNS provider (ie: DuckDNS), and most home routers are able to publish IP address changes to that DNS, otherwise you just need a small software to publish those change, which you can do ok the server hosting Jellyfin.

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      9 months ago

      Someone already suggested that but it seems to be missing a step, still need something to direct to the port I have for jellyfin?

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        9 months ago

        You’ll also need to do some port forwarding at the home router level so that external users can reach the server.

        You’ll preferably want to do what’s called a DHCP reservation so that your server’s internal IP address remains the same, then do a port forward from your public port 8096 to internalIP:8096. That way, you just have to point someone outside of your network to hostname.duckdns.org:8096 (which will get resolved to your current public IP address) for your Jellyfin server.

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            9 months ago

            you’ll need to have your own hostname and make it point to your home IP address, just in case it wasn’t clear enough

            • YIj54yALOJxEsY20eU@lemm.ee
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              9 months ago

              It’s good you are trying to help but I’m not sure someone copying and pasting whatever they read should have a port exposed to the Internet.