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.

  • lime!@feddit.nuOPEnglish
    131·
    22 hours ago

    i’ve set up servers with static ips in datacenter settings before. the way you know you’re online is usually that your cpu activity jumps a few percent from all the incoming ssh traffic from russia and china. i don’t want to risk anything happening to my home server.

      • diegantobass@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Quick question: If I look through the ssh log and I don’t see the hundred of attempts, what could be going on?..

        • teawrecks@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          1·
          8 hours ago

          Are you not actually open to the public internet? Is it running on a nonstandard port? Is it already pwned and something is scrubbing logs?

          • diegantobass@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 hour ago

            Non standard port. But aren’t secret chinese hack farm scanning wider than just 22 ? I don’t know and deep down believe that it’s pawned and scrubbing logs.

        • GreenCrunch@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          4·
          17 hours ago

          I am not sure lol. perhaps your ssh port isn’t exposed to the internet, or maybe the bots are just ignoring you? maybe your hosting provider has some sort of security process to reject those attempts preemptively?

          I have no clue