The original post: /r/mullvadvpn by /u/Pinilla on 2025-03-19 23:04:33.
I have been using mullvad on my home server with Emby installed and everything has worked locally for quite some time. Now, I'm trying to expose that same Emby server externally. I can see the traffic being routed through my router to my server appropriately via wireshark. I have Emby split-tunneled. I think this is true because I see it in the process list from mullvad split-tunnel list and the "Remote Access IP" is accurate to whatismyip.org.
If I turn mullvad off, the incoming TCP SYNs are ACKd correctly. When I turn mullvad on, the SYNs just sit there with no corresponding ACKs. I assume this is because it is trying to respond through the VPN and since it's not the same route it breaks? Either that, or there is some DNS issue. I use a pi-hole locally (it's running on that same server).
Anyone run into this or have any ideas? Is there a better way to go about it altogether?
Thanks in advance!!