Hi guys, I'm trying to open up my ports so that I can access my server from outside. I have dynamic IP from my ISP. Any comments on these rules?

The problem atm is that I can not access them from inside or outside.

EDIT: Used this service, http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/, to check if the ports are open, it says they are. But I'm not reaching what I should...

U need hairpin NAT
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Hairpin_NAT

U need hairpin NAT
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Hairpin_NAT

I can access everything from outside now, must have been my dns script that failed, but internal access does not work. I followed the stops in the wiki you sent for hairpin, but it still seems not to work, anything I can upload for you you guys to look at?

Remove in-interface=ether1-gateway from both of yours dst-nat rules:

add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="default configuration" out-interface=ether1-gateway
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat comment=shh dst-address-type=local dst-port=22 protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.1.10
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat comment=Transmission dst-address-type="" dst-port=9091 protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.1.11

Then add: (assuming your LAN is 192.168.1.0/24)

add action=masquerade chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.1.10 dst-port=22 out-interface=bridge-local protocol=tcp src-address=192.168.1.0/24
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat dst-address=192.168.1.11 dst-port=9091 out-interface=bridge-local protocol=tcp src-address=192.168.1.0/24

Why is it better to use IP addresses instead of the given interface?
(Assuming that the functionality seems to be the same in the end).

I have the same exact issue here. the tool listed above http://www.yougetsignal.com/tools/open-ports/ says that my port is open (Port 32400 is open on 68.186.58.237)

But for whatever reason I cannot get the plex cloud to talk to my server. Is there an outbound firewall rule or something else I'm missing?

/ip firewall nat
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat comment="Thecus Plex" dst-port=32400 in-interface=ether1-gateway protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.88.251 \
to-ports=32400
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="default configuration" out-interface=ether1-gateway to-addresses=0.0.0.0

I'm having the same issue. I used the same website as the person above and verified that the port was open, I can get my plex server to start to load from the outside world however it just hangs once the gui loads up. I think it has something to do with a firewall rule or outbound rule or something? its connecting inbound but like its not talking outbound.... thoughts?



/ip firewall nat
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat comment="Thecus Plex" dst-port=32400 in-interface=ether1-gateway protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.88.251 \
to-ports=32400
add action=masquerade chain=srcnat comment="default configuration" out-interface=ether1-gateway to-addresses=0.0.0.0

I have been fighting with this for the last two days, and think I have read all the posts on this forum relating to Plex and UPnP,
After a lot of tinkering there I found two fixes;

1)Use UPnP, several other poeple have not had issues when using UPnP, it just worked for them, i had to manually specify the information for my external interface:
/ip upnp
set enabled=yes
/ip upnp interfaces
add interface=bridge type=internal
add forced-external-ip=85.96.108.209 interface=ether1-gateway type=external

2) Rather than using UPNP, manually create a DNAT tranlation, it looks a bit different from the other translations i have used but seems to work.
(Basically this was in the list of NAT translations when I had it setup with UPnP, so I removed the automatic config and the UPnp settings and created it manually, you will need to specify the port number from the Plex config page (Server>Connect>Port)
/ip firewall nat
add action=dst-nat chain=dstnat comment=PLEX dst-address=\
86.27.67.17 dst-port=32400 protocol=tcp to-addresses=192.168.100.10
to-ports=32400

Hopefully that will save someone two days of frustration in future
-Aids