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Re: minissdpd, why?

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On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:20:47 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've been running a Pi with Raspbian & an external USB drive as a sort
> of home server for about 2 months.  In the past 2 or 3 days only, & in
> short bursts, minissdpd has started putting stuff in the syslog like
> 
> 24 devices removed (good-bye!)
> 
> device not found for removing : uuid:[...]:urn:[...]
> (repeated many times with some repetition & variation in the [...] bits)
> 
> 16 new devices added
> 
> 
> There doesn't seem to be much information on the WWW about this service
> or what I would want to use it for.  Should I just disable the daemon in
> '/etc/defaults/minissdpd', or remove the package?  What do the messages
> tell me about stuff happening on my LAN?  Why have they only just
> started appearing?
> 
> Thanks.

Is the Pi visible to the Internet?

Just asking because I recently read of vulnerabilities in some routers 
which were being exploited via SSDP.

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/28/reflection_amps_drive_ddos_growth/
>

Not the one I read, but it does mention DDoS and the SSDP protocol.

Cheers

Dave R

-- 
Windows 8.1 on PCSpecialist box

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minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-08-20 11:20 +0100
  Re: minissdpd, why? Roger Bell_West <roger+csrp201508@nospam.firedrake.org> - 2015-08-20 11:34 +0000
    Re: minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-08-21 15:40 +0100
      Re: minissdpd, why? Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-08-21 16:29 +0000
  Re: minissdpd, why? David <wibble@btintenet.com> - 2015-08-29 18:06 +0000
    Re: minissdpd, why? Adam Funk <a24061@ducksburg.com> - 2015-09-09 16:24 +0100

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