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  • drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoLinux@lemmy.mlFirewalls: what SHOULD I block?
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    4 days ago

    You shouldn’t be touching it, honestly. There’s a firewall at your router. It should be responsible for blocking incoming traffic. Firewalls on individual machines are for servers where you know exactly what’s going in and out. I don’t have a firewall on my desktop or laptop.

    You will spend the best years of your life chasing random network connections if you block everything by default.














  • Hosting videogames on a dedicated box for me and the boys when I was 16 got me more interested in networking and when I had finished my mostly unrelated education, I pivoted hard to IT. I don’t currently work in IT and I don’t know if I ever will again because my handicap and location make it hard to find jobs but essentially:

    Self-hosting came first, then came the tech ‘background’.