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Client to client chat with upnp

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Posted by Keegan   USA  (5 posts)  Bio
Date Sun 01 Nov 2009 05:20 AM (UTC)
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Just a thought, but it would be neat if Mushclient could use upnp to open the port for the chat feature. I know it's not that hard for most people to add a port forward in their router, but why not utilize the common technology to make it even easier?
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,102 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #1 on Sun 01 Nov 2009 05:53 AM (UTC)

Amended on Sun 01 Nov 2009 05:54 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon

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Upnp? Unplug n' Pray?

See: http://www.grc.com/unpnp/unpnp.htm

From that page:

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The FBI has Strongly Recommended that All Users Immediately Disable Windows' Universal Plug n' Play Support

- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Nick Gammon   Australia  (23,102 posts)  Bio   Forum Administrator
Date Reply #2 on Sun 01 Nov 2009 05:56 AM (UTC)
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Also from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upnp

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Most notably, routers and firewalls running the UPnP IGD protocol are vulnerable to attack since the framers of the IGD implementation omitted a standard authentication method.


- Nick Gammon

www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com
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Posted by Shadowfyr   USA  (1,788 posts)  Bio
Date Reply #3 on Sun 01 Nov 2009 05:02 PM (UTC)
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Which of course means that if you have an XBox on your network, you have to render yourself vulnerable to use Windows Media support for it, since it uses Upnp to function. lol

Yeah. It has a serious issue, and I haven't heard a lot from MS about how they intend to "fix" it, unlike half the other security holes they have in the OS...
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