You mean you want to access your server when you’re outside the home? Or just access the server over your local network?
If you’re talking about accessing your server and Sonarr, from within your local network, then that’s a not a problem (at least not with any VPN that uses something like OpenVPN…which Private Internet Access does). Your local network traffic will work normally, but any traffic headed to the internet will be intercepted and routed through the VPN interface.
If you’re talking about accessing your server when you’re outside the local network (like when you’re travelling or something), then you could set up a static external IP and port forwarding on your VPN, if you wanted. PIA supports both features.
If you want all internet traffic to be routed through your home’s IP address, but only use deluge on your VPN, then setting up a docker container (or possibly using a sandboxing app) would work best. Others in the thread have suggested how to set up a docker container to play nice with a VPN in that way. Of course running a full fledged virtual machine would do the trick as well.
Sure no problem.
With the VPN enabled, are you normally able to connect to Plex from outside of your home? If you can’t, or have an indirect/bad connection, then it might be a port forwarding issue, which is something you’d need to enable in your VPN client. If you use PIA, then you can follow the instructions here to enable it. Once you enable it, remember to configure your Plex server to use the correct port number for outgoing connections.
If you are able to connect to Plex from outside your home network while your home computer is connected to VPN, then I’m not positive what the issue is. You shouldn’t need to apply any special rules to Plex in Comodo, so it should continue to operate as it always has. I guess an option would be to check the ‘network intrusions’ log and see if it’s blocking incoming/outgoing Plex related traffic. You should be able to get to ‘network intrusions’ from the main Comodo screen, you might need to click on “advanced view” in the upper right corner.
Thanks, I was talking about outside of the network. I wasn’t aware that PIA let you set up an external IP that should work for me. I may look into the docker option too.
Oh yea! I haven’t configured my plex ports since I moved and changed ISP’s. Give me another three months and I’ll let you know what I find
After fighting with comodo constantly blocking websites, even after turning website filters off and then adding the sites exempted status, I switched to using the built in killswitch qbittorrent has. Works perfect! All that hassle and it ended up taking me five minutes using the capabilities already offered. I also have the headless features I was worried about losing
Huh, I never messed around with the website blocking thing, but I haven’t had any issues yet.
And yea, sorry, if I knew you only wanted to use it for qbittorrent then I would have suggested limiting it to a specific interface. I have the same setup for qbittorrent.
It’s all good! Thanks though
Sure no prob. And in the event you ever want to use comodo in the future (or if you’re still having issues with blocked sites), I think I might know why you’re getting blocked sites. When I installed Comodo firewall, it asked if I wanted to use Comodo’s DNS servers. I always uncheck that option, since I use different DNS servers, but if you use Comodo’s, I think it would block sites that it determines has some kind of malware/phishing/etc. So that could be the issue.
Or it could be the VPN provider as well. Some of them block ads/malware sites by default, and in PIA they have an option called PIA Mace to do that.
I found their DNS address in the ipv4 setting but even after switching to default the sites were blocked. I spent the majority of my time trying to fight those blocked sites