https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/ tells me “Additionally, in local networks, Jellyfin offers various Auto-Discovery services. These will not work outside your local subnet.”

Of course I don’t run jellyfin in my main network, who in his right mind would do such a crazy thing. But of course I want Autodiscovery, because typing in names/IPs sucks.

So this is what one needs to do on his firewall to make it work:

iptables -A INPUT -i family -p udp --dport 7359 -j ACCEPT
iptables -t mangle -A INPUT -s 10.0.2.0/24 -i family -d 255.255.255.255 -p udp --dport 7359 -m ttl --ttl-gt 0 -j TEE --gateway 10.0.0.39
iptables -t mangle -A INPUT -s 10.0.0.38 -i jellyfin -d 255.255.255.255 -p udp --dport 7359 -m ttl --ttl-gt 0 -j TEE --gateway 10.0.2.255
iptables -A FORWARD -i jellyfin -o family -p udp --sport 7359 -j ACCEPT # http not recommended :-)

with adjusted interface names and broadcast IPs. Thanks to https://odi.ch/weblog/posting.php?posting=731 for sharing - and the commenters there for improving.

OC text by @nibbler@discuss.tchncs.de