Mediatomb UPnP server not available after OpenVPN installation

I installed the OpenVPN daemon a couple of days ago so that I'm able to connect into my home network from anywhere and route my traffic via this encrypted connection - helpful for public or hotel WiFi. ​

When I came home again, the UPnP radios (noxon iRadio and iRadio cube, Freecom Musicpal) did not find the MediaTomb UPnP server anymore. ​

Looking into the MediaTomb logs at /var/log/mediatomb.log told me that it used a different IP address - one from my VPN address space: ​

2015-06-30 23:03:08    INFO: Server bound to: 192.168.4.1​

Since the netmasks of the radios are /24, they could not connect to the server anymore. ​

The .4.x addresses were on device tun0. I had to adjust /etc/default/mediatomb to force MediaTomb to use the correct network interface: ​

INTERFACE="eth0"​

That's it. Radios play music again. ​

Written by Christian Weiske.

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