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Should I get a firewall appliance? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 months ago by Kit@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
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I have a host name whose dns points to my home IP. I use this for game servers for my buddies. Should I be worried about my home IP being easily accessible like this, and should I get a physical firewall appliance to protect myself?

Servers are running Windows Server 2019 and Mac OSX.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

It depends. If you're forwarding a lot of ports then maybe, but just a home gaming server? Probably not a big deal.

Just don't forward ports for remote control and you'll be fine, especially RDP (3389 IIRC), and SSH..