Roon should create a steady secure tunnel instead of relying on port forwarding

[danny (Danny Dulai)]

@ipeverywhere

I suspect ARC would have seen further delays had they tried to do this day one. But, I think its worth investigation for a next-gen ARC architecture.

@ipeverywhere – you and I had this discussion already here:

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…

Brian chimed in with more however, you may have missed it:

Security with Roon ARC / Roon 2.0

In addition to that, we need to see this resolved, or another mature QUIC solution to pop up there as the ARC app is built using dart/flutter. It’ll get there, we have no doubt, but we weren’t willing to make all of our users wait for it to get this done. The great majority will be able to use port forwarding or VPN solutions with this, and delivering that sooner was the greater good.

@Stefan_Mauron

Why does the forum admin changed my title?

to reduce the soapboxing and focus on the meat of your message.