{"id":135,"date":"2015-07-06T20:58:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.local\/?p=135"},"modified":"2015-07-06T20:58:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T20:58:43","slug":"upnp-blocks-vpn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":"uPnP blocks VPN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my Windows Server 2012r2 VPN quit accepting connections. I checked the port forwarding, I checked the user logons, I checked the client.All looked fine.<\/p>\n<p>I uninstalled and reinstalled the Remote Access Server Roles along with DirectAccess and VPN (RAS). And it still did not work. After the reinstall, I did have to go back into the settings and remove the modem from RRAS ports so I could still receive landline calls.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, I remembered that I had uPnP turned on for XBox Live but had not had a problem in the last six months or so. But as a test, I turned off uPnP and suddenly the VPN started working. It turns out a new computer recently added to the network was the culprit.<\/p>\n<p>I always believed that the manual port forwarding list would take priority over uPnP but it turns out this is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.com\/phpBB2\/viewtopic.php?p=901498\">not the case<\/a>. And it also appears that using uPnP is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.howtogeek.com\/122487\/htg-explains-is-upnp-a-security-risk\/\">not the best idea<\/a>. So after setting up the <a href=\"http:\/\/support.xbox.com\/en-US\/xbox-360\/networking\/network-ports-used-xbox-live\">XBox Live port forwarding<\/a>, I now leave uPnP off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently my Windows Server 2012r2 VPN quit accepting connections. I checked the port forwarding, I checked the user logons, I checked the client.All looked fine. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Remote Access Server Roles along with DirectAccess and VPN (RAS). &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/?p=135\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-server-2012r2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1IEK3-2b","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.c-devtech.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}