SelfHosting Guilty Pleasure(s)
from irmadlad@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 22:18
https://lemmy.world/post/44012666

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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TCB13@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 22:27 next collapse

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

yaroto98@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 22:39 next collapse

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.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 08 Mar 22:43 collapse

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.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 23:22 collapse

It really is satisfying. I can’t explain it fully, but there is a sense of satisfaction.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 09 Mar 00:59 collapse

It reminds us we are on the side of The Good.

It is also wonderful schadenfreude to see scammers frustrated.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 23:12 collapse

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…

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social on 09 Mar 01:01 collapse

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

Alvaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 08 Mar 23:21 next collapse

Mine is seeing the “removed” and “started” when I update all my dockers

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 08 Mar 23:26 collapse

Can relate.

rtxn@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 00:30 next collapse

Mine is using a network share to transfer files faster than any USB device we have at home.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 02:51 collapse

…and how do you manage those speeds?

ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw on 09 Mar 00:31 next collapse

Watching the bots eat my iocaine poison. Its most of my traffic.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 02:55 collapse

Muuhahahaha!

savvywolf@pawb.social on 09 Mar 01:46 collapse

Tweaking my various Nix configs feels good and satisfying.

… When it works, that is.

irmadlad@lemmy.world on 09 Mar 02:40 collapse

I love to fiddle to see if I can improve on some app, service, or configuration of my server just to see if I improve performance, etc. Example: pFsense…great googlymoogly at the options. I kept trying this or that tut, no joy. So I sat down with the manual, and just did what I knew, Then did a lot of reading, and I did find one or two tuts that actually were, I guess you’d say, ‘at my level’. Then I fiddle to see if I can get better performance or to see what one of the thousands of options does. I have leaned heavily on backups from time to time.