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UPnP with EdgeRouter: Don't do it! Ubiquiti. ER-4.

Want to configure UPnP on EdgeRouter-4?

Don't do it!

Introduction

As a former sysadmin that once helped ride herd over around 1,000 servers, of which around 10% were Internet-facing, I've never been a fan of autoconfiguation when it comes to punching holes through the firewall. I've seen the tripwire logs, and it's sobering.

The Problem

So enabling UPnP on my EdgeRouter-4 wasn't something I had on the roadmap, but when I ran into difficulty getting DLNA to work on the default VLAN, I thought it was worth looking into (never mind that, as I later learned, having UPnP turned on wasn't going make a bit of difference on my local network: another reason that mastering theory should always come before practice).