Archive for January, 2010
UPnP Wizardry
You may notice an Xbox360 related theme in my current posts, as after getting one, most of my technology thought process is involved in something to do with it. Hence the Xbox Live Gamercard API I wrote about before. Now we get on to UPnP.
Universal Plug and Play is used for 2 mains things as far as I can tell.
- Dynamically opening holes in firewalls/NAT configurations for inbound connections to services. (bad!
- Media Discover/playback/control on a local network. (good!)
The first is bad in my opinion. I don’t want the ability for some software behind my firewall to allow connections into my network. It might make some software function a little more smoothly, but if it’s that important that connections can be made inbound I would have set up a port-forward myself.
So I am only concerned with the second scenario.