Port forwarding on fritzbox

[Geoff_Coupe]

Perhaps these messages from Danny will shed some light on what is happening. Bottom line: unless you’re paranoid, you can relax.

Security with Roon ARC / Roon 2.0

Roon authenticates your user credentials and uses an encrypted transport. No unintended users can access your Roon. If Roon is not running, then no one listens on the port that is forwarded, so nothing external can access anything inside your network. It’s like a phone number that never answers. If somehow you already had rogue/malicious software on your network, it could access your network freely and it doesn’t need to open ports at all. It can tunnel traffic from the outside to the inside …

Security with Roon ARC / Roon 2.0

They suggest this because they don’t want a corporate employee to open ports into the corporate network. Not because of malicious software. Malicious software that relies on port forwarding wouldn’t be very effective. Many of these vendors don’t even support automatic port forwarding configuration. Example in the SOHO space: UniFi EdgeRouters need extra addon software to do it. Again, because of the exploitable nature of poor implementations, not because they will open random ports inbound. I…