On Monday 08 April 2002 05:36, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > But even with it, I have to trust the client app that it will do > good (and secure) with the hole in the firewall that I have > allocated for it.
See my earlier message. The holes should be subject to your firewalling policy. > Oh. I see what you are saying. Yes, I suppose the applications > would be responsible for tracking which holes it has asked to be > open and should close them when it's done. Perhaps the UPnP spec > allows the application to specify that the UPnP server close the > connection after a certain amount of idle time. UPnP specifies a lease time on port mappings yes. Regards Henrik
