sfryman
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- Dec 11, 2016
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My router has a "security assessment" function from Trend Micro. I clicked on it last night, and most things turn up "OK". The exception is for uPNP being enabled (see attached screenshot). I did some online reading and found several opinions stating UPnP is a security risk.
So I disabled UPnP, and predictably some services made a fuss. No big deal, except that Plex is no longer accessible outside of my home network. Manual port forwarding should be an alternative, but I could not get it to work. The instructions from Plex are very straight forward, and I have done this before with an older router & linux server, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
After about an hour of failing to get Plex working fully again I noticed that port forwarding was also considered a security risk by the Trend Micro security assessment.
So, I cannot have a perfectly clean security risk assessment AND external access to Plex. Fine. We will take some risk but how much worse is UPnP over manual port forwarding?
Also is there something special about Plex implementation on FreeNAS that I need to address to get port forwarding to work?
I understand that Plex is running in a jail, so I gave the jail a static IP (same one DHCP gave out already, just made it static) & then I set up internal port 32400 forwarding to this IP. I also checked off manual port forwarding in the Plex settings page and used the same external port number as the router. Plex still does not work outside my network. I tried multiple external port numbers and restarted both the FreeNAS machine and the router several times with no change.
So I disabled UPnP, and predictably some services made a fuss. No big deal, except that Plex is no longer accessible outside of my home network. Manual port forwarding should be an alternative, but I could not get it to work. The instructions from Plex are very straight forward, and I have done this before with an older router & linux server, so I'm not sure what's wrong.
After about an hour of failing to get Plex working fully again I noticed that port forwarding was also considered a security risk by the Trend Micro security assessment.
So, I cannot have a perfectly clean security risk assessment AND external access to Plex. Fine. We will take some risk but how much worse is UPnP over manual port forwarding?
Also is there something special about Plex implementation on FreeNAS that I need to address to get port forwarding to work?
I understand that Plex is running in a jail, so I gave the jail a static IP (same one DHCP gave out already, just made it static) & then I set up internal port 32400 forwarding to this IP. I also checked off manual port forwarding in the Plex settings page and used the same external port number as the router. Plex still does not work outside my network. I tried multiple external port numbers and restarted both the FreeNAS machine and the router several times with no change.