UPnP vs. Fedora 14 firewall

[Mike Wohlgemuth]

On 05/02/2011 12:57 PM, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
> Mike Wohlgemuth wrote:
>> As a starting point, I am attempting to discover services via SSDP.  If
>> I have the firewall enabled, and I run upnp-inspector, I see no
>> services.  No matter what combination of settings I have tried, I never
>> see any services via upnp-inspector.  If I disable the firewall and
>> immediately rediscover services in upnp-inspector, I will instantly see
>> my printers, my media server, etc.  I wouldn't at all be surprised if
>> the services didn't work without extra ports open, but I cannot even see
>> them to attempt to use them.
> It looks like upnp-inspector not only listens[1] on UDP port 1900, but
> on two other randomized ports as well. One solution would be to have
> upnp-inspector use the new firewalld API in Fedora 15 to open up ports
> automatically. Another solution would be to allow high TCP/UDP ports
> (say,>30000).
>
> [1] # netstat -anp | grep -i python
Ah!  Thank you!  That explains it.  Now off to figure out why each 
individual application that I'm actually trying to use is having 
issues.  Hopefully it will be as easy to figure out.

Thanks again
Mike