Re: [PLUG] Network question

[Rich Freeman via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

On Tue, May 14, 2024 at 6:19 PM Keith C. Perry via plug
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
>
> When someone tells me that they are being randomly probed- which is literally everything on the internet, my first instinct isn't to tell them to move to some cloud / VPS or data center this or that.  That is not the solution for this issue.

Yeah, everybody everywhere is getting probed.  You only see it because
you run the router.  If you use a cloud service where you need to
explicitly open ports, then that is also getting probed, but only the
provider is setting the logs on that.  Whatever ports you do open will
get probed either way.  Self-hosting is really only a problem if you
aren't running a well-updated router.  Oh, and your home router is
getting probed whether you forward ports on it or not.

Now, if your ISP is blocking the ports you need to forward, well, then
you don't have much choice.

I self-host lots of stuff on FIOS and haven't had any problems.  They
don't even block port 25 (of course if you want to send anything
outgoing nobody will accept it directly due to IP reputation).

None of this is to detract from VPS providers - that is a perfectly
viable option.

-- 
Rich
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