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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: https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/3829f59a-fe76-4fd0-b988-c8b8896f2dd3.png

abuseipdb.com: https://discuss.tchncs.de/pictrs/image/fd0b1738-8a21-4cfc-a996-36b109268c28.png

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).

Maybe checking for updates?

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

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.

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

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 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

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

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