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"LAN access from remote" log entries
I've been looking over my daily router logs for the last few days and keep finding this entry sporadically: [LAN access from remote] from 184.105.247.199:32931 to 10.8.108.64:5353, Wednesday, Jul...
Port 5353 is commonly used for Multicast DNS (Apple calls it Bonjour). It's unusual to see a remote device access this port. In addition to disabling port forwarding/triggering, make sure that UPnP and DMZ are disabled, too. Those are the two other vectors by which a remote device could access the internal network.
Disabling UPnP appears to have stopped these from showing up in the logs. And I'm savvy enough with networking to create any necessary port maps that I might need, so UPnP doesn't seem to offer me any real benefits anyway. I've had it off for several weeks now and have not noticed any issues. Thanks for helping to make my home network more secure!