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Self-hosters urged to block traffic from unexpected countries
Original: If you expose # selfhosted services to the Internet, why accept traffic from places you’re not expecting to be? I hardly
A self-hosting enthusiast recommends geofencing internet-exposed services: since he rarely travels abroad, he blocks requests originating from other countries, and says his logs show the filter drops roughly 95% of opportunistic and malicious bot traffic before it reaches his services. The practice is being discussed as a simple, low-cost hardening step for people running their own servers at home.
Why now: Home-server operators are increasingly looking for easy ways to cut bot and scanning traffic.
Evidence
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