Re: Firewall (Router) "automatic" entries (msmsgs)

From: Joe Stevenson (rgwia_at_nfghe.com)
Date: 02/18/04 

Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 16:05:04 GMT

Actually, I think UPnP is great feature. The computer(s) can actually
communicate with the firewall/router to open up ports that it needs for
applications to work correctly and after a specified time, the ports are
closed again until its needed. Using the old school way involves setting up
ports and applications manually. It's like comparing to the old school
computers where you need to set jumpers, irqs and dmas to avoid conflicts.

Usually, technology is a good thing...

"Markus Kraus" <mkr@gmxpro.de> wrote in message
news:7p1q209bc38n8fbiqshq036fpch6h127ii@4ax.com...
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:12:56 GMT, Lars M. Hansen wrote:
>
>
> >One (or both) of your computers uses UPnP to automatically configure the
> >device to allow MSN Messenger traffic. If you don't want this to happen,
> >disable UPnP on either the router, the computers or both.
>
> Yeap, UPnP really sucks. For me, it's a nightmare to know that an
> application on one of my LAN PCs can configure my firewalls at their
> will. If MSN Messenger can do it, any other "bad" program could it do,
> too.
>
> Best regards,
> Markus

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