Before I posted her I asked AI a bit..
It told me that plex doesn’t act as the middle man by using your account, and that it instead uses NAT traversal techniques…
Now im even more confused because i know to connect to any device over the internet youd need an ip address, which changes constantly.
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This is more of a /r/Plex question then an ELI5 question, but the general idea is that while your Plex server is online, it has a TCP connection with Plex’s own servers. The TCP handshake, involves your server sending its IP address to the Plex server to initiate the connection.
So long as your server is periodically making connections to the central Plex server, it can act as a “DNS-like” service to anyone you grant access to, by just giving them the IP address that it knows belongs to your server
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