11 Dec
2009
11 Dec
'09
7:41 a.m.
Mark Newton wrote, on 2009-12-11 03:09:
You kinda do if you're using a stateful firewall with a "deny everything that shouldn't be accepted" policy. UPnP (or something like it) would have to tell the firewall what should be accepted.
That's putting the firewall at the mercy of viruses, worms, etc. The firewall shouldn't trust anything else to tell it what is good and bad traffic. Simon -- DNS64 open-source --> http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca STUN/TURN server --> http://numb.viagenie.ca vCard 4.0 --> http://www.vcarddav.org