@peertube My firewall is setup to filter all of my browser connections.
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@peertube My firewall is setup to filter all of my browser connections. When I visit a website I only allow its base and subdomains.
When watching a video on a Peertube instance, my browser sends requests to peers on completely random ports (in the high range) which means watching a popular video triggers and endless chain of firewall dialogs. Why the random ports? I wish I could just open port xxx and be done with it... -
@peertube My firewall is setup to filter all of my browser connections. When I visit a website I only allow its base and subdomains.
When watching a video on a Peertube instance, my browser sends requests to peers on completely random ports (in the high range) which means watching a popular video triggers and endless chain of firewall dialogs. Why the random ports? I wish I could just open port xxx and be done with it...@mrfry That's how WebRTC works, nothing we can do on this topic unfortunately.
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@mrfry That's how WebRTC works, nothing we can do on this topic unfortunately.
@peertube Thank you for the quick response and link. Not what I wished for but at least I know where I stand

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@peertube Thank you for the quick response and link. Not what I wished for but at least I know where I stand

@mrfry Viewers (including without accounts) can manually disable the P2P function in the settings, which will avoid using WebRTC.