uPnP Security Issues

Posted by: Buntobox on 21 February 2016

An engineer friend of mine has described uPnp and its massive security issues as "evil" and recommends that I disable it . He's streaming audio without uPnP using a squeezebox and he told me I should be able to do the same although he wasn't forthcoming about exactly how he did it on his system. Question is: Can I configure my ND5-XS to stream without using uPnP and if so, how is it done?

Posted on: 21 February 2016 by Simon-in-Suffolk

I think you are confusing different types of UPnP. The UPnP your friend is probably referring to is the UPnP used to open ports on home router firewalls rather than manually configuring them.

When we talk about UPnP in the world of streaming we are typically referring to UPnP media streaming services which are quite separate and are the basis for much audio and video streaming in home networks, and is what Naim use along with others such Linn, Sonos, Sony etc

UPnP is a whole collection of different capabilities - but we tend to use it as a short hand here for just media streaiming

Posted on: 21 February 2016 by Buntobox

Thanks for that helpful reply. I didn't realise there was a difference. I have now turned off the UPnP hosting in the services page and the music kept playing!