[Netalyzr] Help! Test result Code 34

[Stian Øvrevåge]

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Nicholas Weaver
<nweaver at icsi.berkeley.edu> wrote:
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> On Jan 29, 2013, at 7:25 PM, Eric Boettner wrote:
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>> Good evening,
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>> I ran the test today - and got this error. I've run the test many of times, but today is the first time it flew up this specific error message. Can someone tell me what it means? Thanks!
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>> NAT support for Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) (?): Not tested–
>> An I/O error occurred during the test. The test result code is 34.
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> It means we weren't able to contact your NAT using Universal Plug and Play, and that our code crashed during this process.  So I wouldn't worry about it from your network's viewpoint, but if you have the test results URL, that wolud be useful to us to help debug why this occuredd.
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> Thansk.
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>

Maybe your ISP have taken some measures to limit UPnP in light of
Rapid7 and HD Moores publication of a research paper yesterday showing
tens of millions of exposed devices with unprotected UPnP instances (
http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/01/29/disable-a-protocol-called-upnp-on-your-router-now-to-avoid-a-serious-set-of-security-bugs/
).

But, of course. It's most likely something else :-)

Brgds,
Stian Øvrevåge