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December 4th 2024

Jellyfin/SageTV and disabled accounts

A problem has been detected where Jellyfin and SageTV was causing problems with the SD-JSON service leading to accounts being temporarily blocked.

The SD-DD service isn't affected

I don't know the details on the SageTV issues, but it's similar.

12/18 Update: The block occurs after 5000 login failures in a few minutes.. basically a denial of service attack. If you disable Jellyfin's grabber and switch to XMLTV source, open a lineup support ticket, request a ban remove and include your ip address (you can get it here).

02/04 Update: The issue with Jellyfin wasn't fixed in 10.10.4 (or 10.10.5). JellyFin is still ignoring the "back pressure" responses that we send once they've hit a limit and just keep going at 20-100 requests per second.

02/21 Update: Reports show both Jellyfin and SageTV are still triggering denial of service attack defenses. To remove a block open a lineup support ticket, request a ban remove and include your ip address (you can get it here). It's a good idea to disable what's causing the problem and switch to a good data source (probably XMLTV based) while the issues are being worked.

Here's the Jellyfin github issue

Here's a Jellyfin forum thread

Here's a SageTV forum thread

October 17th 2024

lineup support fixed!

When I moved the mail server, I broke the lineup support page!! All fixed.. sorry about that. On the plus side, looks like outbound email has otherwise been working perfectly.

Please resubmit any tickets submitted in the past few days

October 14th 2024

more email problems

Mailgun has been unable to improve email deliverability. Non-Microsoft emails were also being rejected. We've just switched to Amazon SES... we'll see how it goes! (we're not allowed to send email directly from our AWS hosts)

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