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SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s) (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I'm not sure anyone shares the same glee I feel when I view all the blocked IPs scrolling by in my pFsense firewall. Suricata does a lot of heavy lifting for sure.

What's your selfhosting guilty pleasure or pleasures?

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Sure, but why? If you've a simple router running OpenWrt or something with all WAN ports closed you basically have the same thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Maybe it's a pretty graph/reports thing? I enjoy looking at the pihole dashboard and reviewing top blocked domains. I even look at the top allowed domains and add some to the blacklist.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I too use my PiHole for this pleasurable activity

    Look at all the bots and trolls that slammed against my Skynet OpenWRT module... and died.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    Why do I like to watch them? Can't explain that fully, but I also find watching the flows in ntopng to be fascinating. Maybe I'm just easily entertained. As far as why I would run pfsense over OpenWrt or similar, it's mainly what I know and I can drive the pfsense bus well enough. Back in the day I experimented around with OpenWrt, and it may have improved over the years, but I found it kludgy.

    ETA: Also to do IDS/IPS you'll have to install Suricata, Snort or SoftEther anyways so......

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    Do check OpenWRT again. These days even a network-ignorant person like myself can point and click to set up guest networks, configure individual devices' access, adblock, crazy good firewalls, ...

    Very slick & professional

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