<story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyounkins</author><text>&amp;gt; I am actually somewhat skeptical of the security advantages of disabling UPnP for this purpose. The concern is usually that malware on a machine in the local network will use UPnP to map inbound ports...&lt;p&gt;For me the concern is not malware but crappy&amp;#x2F;insecure software proudly exposing itself on the internet.&lt;p&gt;Many IP cameras will use UPnP to make their web interface publicly accessible. Because of the long history of opening router ports, seeing a random open port on my public IP was quite surprising. If you haven&amp;#x27;t recently, check your own public IP in Shodan.io .&lt;p&gt;The cameras I&amp;#x27;ve used run crappy web interfaces that almost certainly do not get security updates. If an attack was successful on the camera, from there the attacker would have access to my internal network.</text></comment>
<story><title>No U PNP</title><url>https://computer.rip/2021-11-26-no-u-pnp.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>phoronixrly</author><text>The issue I always had with DLNA is that I found its implementations and apecifically controllers and renderers rather wonky:&lt;p&gt;- Open-source controllers are unstable and with terrible UX when they manage to discover the renderers and servers. Closed source controllers all seemed suspicious to me, esp. on Android.
- Renderers all support different media formats, some support sutitles, others not at all...&lt;p&gt;Don&amp;#x27;t get me wrong, I marvel at the engineering thought that went into designing the spec, however adoption was never up to par IMO.
I&amp;#x27;d love to be proven wrong that this is no longer the case, however the defeatist tone of TFA makes me doubt this...&lt;p&gt;On the issue with NAT-PMP, PCP, IGD, I am somewhat jaded. I use OpenWrt and XMPP. For my home use this setup works hassle-free and file transfers and calls just work. (IoT is in a different vlan, cut off from the internet). However I doubt setting this up is not really something the average consumer would do. Maybe only if pirating as Torrent clients, too have very good support for the protocol.</text></comment>