Post #2104215
2026-04-26 02:21 UTC
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@chewie@mammut.gogreenit.net 2026-05-06 19:43
@adangerbartels@hachyderm.io I used to have all my machines on static addresses and only firewalled on the machines themselves. The worst that happened was I stupidly installed Windows 2000 and didn't install SP4 quick enough, and it became a spam relay for a few hours :( Nowadays my router is an old server running OPNsense, which has some firewall rules, and everything else is on a DMZ with 1:1 static NATs (annoyingly - my ISP won't give me a proper subnet). Because most of my servers run web servers, I run a script that searches the logs for obvious script-kiddie type stuff (eg requests for "../../", "/admin" (when I don't have an admin page etc). The unique addresses get stored in a text file which is web-accessible, and then OPNsense picks up these files from each web server every few minutes and adds them to a block list, so all my devices are protected. Atm, most of my servers have picked up a few hundred IPs, but right now, my Mastodon server has flagged 24k, erk!! I'd better check that out now 😞. I also download the @stratosphere@infosec.exchange blocklists daily, and I have manually blocked some IPs (like Metas IPv4 and IPv6 scanners). So far so good, I have been doing this for over 3 years, and I have been fine. I used to expose SSH to the internet, but not any more - I just use Wireguard (which is built into OPNsense) first before I connect to any admin interfaces using the internal addresses. If you wanted to try doing a security scan, you could try this: https://openvas.org/ I've not used it for a while, but it was good, and the free version was enough for me to check for "low-hanging fruit". I hope that helps. Feel free to ask me questions 😀