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Assuming the user will not be connecting over vpn, but is both remote and non-technical, how would you expose Jellyfin to them securely?

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[–] Bazoogle@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Also not as ideal if their ISP uses CGNAT. Still waaay better than fully open, but you would be giving access to many households

[–] NeryK@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Yep, that's why I call that a tradeoff. Far from perfect and yet so much better than nothing.

Pros:

  • Likely cuts 99.99% of attacks.
  • Nothing to do on client's end.

Cons:

  • Whitelisting must be updated everytime the client address changes.
  • Not 100% bulletproof as operators (notably for mobile networks) can NAT multiple connections behind a single publicly addressable IPv4 address.
  • Also IP addresses can be spoofed but I doubt that would be a major concern here.