Where Are All My Firewall People? (lemmy.world)

submitted 8 months ago by irmadlad@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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What do you run; Opnsense, pfsense, Smoothwall, maybe a WAF like wazuh?

Today was update/audit firewall day. I'm running a standalone instance of pFsense on a Protectli Vault FW4B - 4 Port - Intel Quad Core - 8GB RAM - 120GB mSATA SSD with unbound, pfBlockerNG, Suricata, ntopng, and heavily filtered. I did bump the swap to 8 GB as I've previously noticed a few 'out of swap' errors under load.

Before I signed off, I ran it through a couple porn sites to see if my adblocking strategy was working. Not one intrusive ad. Sweet!

Show me what you got.

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[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

The last stats I remember reading cited some 1.5 million home networks are compromised on a daily basis. Some people, such as myself, run more complex services on their local servers that are perhaps tied into remotes such as VPS. You'll see a lot of selfhosters with rather elaborate firewall defenses set up. I self host a lot of services I use that the 'normal family home' would outsource to public entities. I have a rack in the closet and several VPS, so I need something more than just Windows Firewall, or similar, that I can dial in to my unique environment.

Also, because I can.

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Valid! I also tinker with selfhosting using Docker containers, didn't think of firewalls the same way. Thank you.

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

No worries mate. What do you host?

[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Nothing spectacular.

Git, Paperless, UniFi Controller, Pihole, Mattermost chat, Immich, Home Assistant, Frigate, Syncthing, Hoarder. Just stuff for myself, my home, and my friends. And 🏴‍☠️

And you?

[-] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

The usual. Might be a few I've missed:

Homarr
Code-server
Netdata
Searxng
Change-detection
Readeck
Checkcle
Duckdns
Obsidian
Dozzle
Loki-promtail-1
Loki-loki-1
Root-influxdb2-1
Cadvisor-redis
Dbeaver
Pairdrop
Speedtest-tracker
Btop-plus-plus
Portainer
Grocy
Loki-grafana-1
Cup
Web-check
Omni-tools
Cadvisor-prometheus
Watchtower-fork
Barcode-buddy
Ittools
Nessus
Dockerbot
Fusion
Bytestash
Uptime-kuma
Karakeep-web
Karakeep-chrome
Karakeep-meili
Cadvisor
Gitlab
RocketChat
Anonaddy
Etherpad
Archivebox
FreshRSS
FileStash
piHole
LAMP Stack
UnRaid
Proxmox

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