{"id":5274,"date":"2012-07-29T21:48:12","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T02:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5274"},"modified":"2012-10-17T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T19:09:26","slug":"dropbox-what-is-lan-sync","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5274","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox &#8211; What is LAN sync?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Well, when you add a file to your computer&#8217;s Dropbox, the file is then synced with Dropbox servers. Dropbox will then initiate the syncing process as soon as it determines a change has been made to the file. All linked computers and shared folders will then download any new version of the file. With LAN syncing, <strong>Dropbox will look for the new file on your Local Area Network first, bypassing the need to download the file from Dropbox servers<\/strong>, thus speeding up the syncing process considerably.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/help\/137\/en\">Dropbox &#8211; What is LAN sync? &#8211; Simplify your life<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure if this is a good idea.<\/p>\n<p>From: <a href=\"http:\/\/tools.cisco.com\/security\/center\/viewAlert.x?alertId=23896\">http:\/\/tools.cisco.com\/security\/center\/viewAlert.x?alertId=23896<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When synchronizing user data and communicating with the host service, a Dropbox client normally uses TCP port 443.\u00a0 In addition, the application may also use UDP\u00a0and TCP port 17500 for communication via the Dropbox LanSync Protocol.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Administrators are advised to implement an intrusion prevention system (IPS) or intrusion detection system (IDS) to help detect and prevent attacks that could detect the presence of Dropbox in a network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, when you add a file to your computer&#8217;s Dropbox, the file is then synced with Dropbox servers. Dropbox will then initiate the syncing process as soon as it determines a change has been made to the file. All linked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=5274\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[110],"tags":[419,365,323],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networking","tag-cyberlocker","tag-dropbox","tag-protocols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7598,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions\/7598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}