Re: risk of UPnP
Steve Dougherty <steve-kVTqj8yhOEv2eFz/[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.network.freenet.support |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On 02/26/2015 05:43 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi, > > on vour Website https://freenetproject.org/faq.html#firewall I found > this: "Freenet should have forwarded them itself through Universal Plug > and Play, but this doesn't always work (and it never works if you don't > have the UPnP plugin loaded, or have one router behind another)." > without any hint for security problems of UPnP. This might deem as a > recommdation to users to activate UPnP in their routers. It would be > nice to implement some warning. What security problems do you mean? What warning would you recommend? UPnP is for traversing NAT, and NAT is not a firewall. Many routers enable UPnP by default, and using the plugin allows people who do not understand how to forward ports to use Freenet. It is not intended for those who know how to configure a firewall / NAT. Is that what you were referring to? > many thanks > penda uhura _______________________________________________ Support mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.support Unsubscribe at http://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/support Or mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe
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