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What's the security situation when opening a jellyfin server up for casting? (feddit.nu)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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when reading through the jellyfin with chromecast guide i realized that it would probably be less effort to just let the casting api be public, with the added bonus that i could then cast my library to any device that supports it. but that seems like it would paint a giant target on the server.

what's the recommended way of doing stuff like this? ideally i want to be able to go to someone's house and just play some of my media on their tv.

not that any of this is doable in the near future, since i'm behind cgnat and won't get my colocated bounce server up until spring.

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[–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

This video addresses many of the concerns of hosting stuff in public, and details a way (and some tools) to do it relatively securely. (There's always a risk there'll be a zero-day vulnerability in a web application like Jellyfin, but you can mitigate against them if you use the right strategies/tools, and you're vigilant enough.)

Since you're on cgnat, you can set up Pangolin on a VPS, or Tailscale-->rinetd-->Tailscale tunnel, also on a VPS. (Apparently frp is another similar solution, with p2p proxying.)

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    i'll worry about the nat traversal when i get my bouncer back up, but it will probably be less full-featured than pangolin. previously i just used a reverse ssh setup but that was a bit too rudimentary.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    Yea I haven't tried Pangolin myself - looks a bit bloated for my tastes, but I have tried rinetd across Tailscale and it worked brilliantly (very simple conf file), and I've done reverse ssh before (using autossh) which was a bit fiddly. frp does look promising though, just as a VPS<->home bridge.

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