ipWhitelist HowTo

greda

Hi everybody,

I want to connect from the outside on my maggic. I configured the config.js file like this: ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “:: ffff: 127.0.0.1”, “:: 1”, “0.0.0.0”], // Set [] to allow all IP addresses but I don’t have remote access.
Thank you for your help.

sdetweil

@greda said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

ipWhitelist: [“127.0.0.1”, “:: ffff: 127.0.0.1”, “:: 1”, “0.0.0.0”]

u mean inside your home?

address: "0.0.0.0".
ipWhitelist:[],

127.0.0.1 means ONLY from the same box as MM on it.

greda

@sdetweil said in ipWhitelist HowTo:

u mean inside your home?

Yes inside my home.

greda

Ok thanks it 's good now.

esamecar

Hi,

sorry, this is a very long thread I stumbled upon because I had the problem that my browser told me that I cannot connect to a server only instance of mm2. The terminal output gave me an “Access denied to IP address” and printed the ip address I configured in the ipWhitelist section of the config file according to the getting started section in the documentation and the comment in the config itself.

What I was doing was following this advice:

// or add a specific IPv4 of 192.168.1.5 :
                                                                                                                        // ["127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.1.5"],

the ip rejected was 192.168.178.42, therefore I used first

"127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "::ffff:192.168.178.42"

BUT I think I have to use (at least this is what makes it working)

"127.0.0.1", "::ffff:127.0.0.1", "::1", "192.168.178.42"

Does this make any sense to you?

Kind regards

Marco

sdetweil

@esamecar what is your address: setting?

to allow systems from OUTSIDE the MagicMirror hardware, you must use something OTHER than “localhost”

you can either use “0.0.0.0” , which means use any ip address on this machine to listen to requests
or the actual ip address (which can change )
use

ip addr

to get the address of the wifi or ethernet connected interface

THEN
you can fiddle with the whitelist …

using the whitelist (IMHO) is really only useful in a commercial setting where someone in the office MIGHT scan for open IP addresses and try to connect to a range of ports…

in my house, noone is getting on my network unless I let them …

esamecar

@sdetweil thanks for your answer

I was using “0.0.0.0” as ip addr already as advised in the documentation but could not pass the ipWhitelist section … omitting the “::ffff:” part helped. (Now everything is up and running.)

sdetweil

@esamecar ::FFFFFF is the ipv6 type filter

esamecar

@sdetweil thanks, now I understand; so omitting that part completely makes sense in an ipv4 environment I guess.