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What to do about Open Ports




I frequently get a Fing warnings about Open ports. They usually refer to dlink or other cameras I have setup with port forwarding so I can see them online when I'm not at home.
My question is: What action should I take, if anything, when I get these Open Port warnings.
My router is an Asus GT-AC5300 with 1 Mesh addition
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https://community.fing.com/discussion/624/open-ports-apple-airport-router
Perhaps these are very similar and I could merge them. What do you think?
Community Manager at Fing
Cheers,
I'm able to view them all on one screen in that application and utilizing the Bluestacks Emulator I can use Android apps on my Windows Desktop.
For my NVRs I use Dahua's SMART PSS, Q-SEE View and HikConnect. Lots of different cameras at different locations!
I also monitor a location with WYZE cameras. They provide very good video but not multiple live video and there is no Desktop application for WYZE cameras.
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Community Manager at Fing
My view:
- You have open ports that you are aware of, because you consciously opened these on router for some services running inside your network, that you need to have access to from Internet. Example: 8123 used as standard to access home assistant. In such scenario you should be able to mark such port as open/known to you and we should not get notification. Apparently it is possible from application, but I did not foud it intuitive. If I understood this well, you can delete the port from the list of ports to be scanned, but at the same time you miss track of what the port is used for. Either I do not get the idea or this is potential area for improvement.
MDavide said; you can access network using dlink app... but this is because dlink router is opening port to your LAN using UPnP without you knowing about (I assume)!
@satman to give more information from the DEV team. It’s a warning by Fingbox because having a port opened to the external is always something to be reported from a security point of view.
If it’s intentional behaviour, configured by you, you can definitely ignore them.
Community Manager at Fing
Thank you. That gives me some peace of mind since the Open Ports always refers to one of my cameras.
Community Manager at Fing