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Navidrome & demo.navidrome.org [SOLVED] (lemmy.world)
submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I posted this over at https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/navidrome, but I thought I'd post it here, maybe someone has had experience with this.

I've been noticing demo.navidrome.org showing up in my firewall:

pFsense:

abuseipdb.com:

As with anything entering or exiting my network, I am cautious and curious why my instance of Navidrome has the need to contact demo.navidrome.org.

I am running Navidrome as a Docker Instance. I have combed my compose file and can find nothing in that itself that would trigger Navidrome to 'call home'.

Is this for stats, or other? As of right now, I have demo.navidrome.org blocked until I've gathered some information.

BTW, sweet piece of opensource software. I tip my hat to the dev team(s).

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[-] raicon@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Maybe checking for updates?

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

Maybe, but my question would then be 'Why the demo site?' Wouldn't it be pulling updates from Github or Docker?

[-] OR3X@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That's interesting. I checked my logs and I only see a few hits for insights.navidrome.org but nothing for demo.navidrome.org. I'm on version 0.59.0 so I'm a little behind.

EDIT: Here's some information about what data they collect and how to opt-out: https://navidrome.org/docs/usage/admin/insights/#what-will-be-collected

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, I saw that, and maybe they're using demo.navidrome.org as the collection point. However, I do not see insights.navidrome.org in my firewall. I don't think it's something nefarious, I just wanted to know....it's a curse.

[-] eutampieri@feddit.it 13 points 7 months ago

It’s because of this:

$ dig +short insights.navidrome.org
209.141.42.198
$ dig -x 209.141.42.198

; <<>> DiG 9.20.11-4-Debian <<>> -x 209.141.42.198
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 12665
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;198.42.141.209.in-addr.arpa.   IN      PTR

;; ANSWER SECTION:
198.42.141.209.in-addr.arpa. 30 IN      PTR     demo.navidrome.org.

;; Query time: 208 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1) (UDP)
;; WHEN: Sun Mar 08 17:13:34 CET 2026
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 77

In practice, demo and insights are on the same IP, whose reverse points to demo

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Ahah! Ok that makes sense. Thank you so much for clearing that up. I guess I can now unblock demo.navidrome.org.

[-] jake@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

What client app(s) do you use? Some of these have the demo server pre-loaded, maybe that's still configured in the background?

[-] Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
FTS Flight Termination System
IP Internet Protocol
UDP User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications
WDR Wet Dress Rehearsal (with fuel onboard)

4 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 19 acronyms.

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