The Internet is a rough neighborhood
This week I stood up a new firewall in front of my home network. This one has much better logging than the old one, and I’ve been watching the block reports.
![A screenshot of blocked inbound connection attempts, originating from all over the world.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/763/2024/blocked-inbound-connections.png)
Real talk, friends: DO. NOT. expose a machine to the open Internet unless you’re 100% confident it’s bulletproof.
“I run my service on a custom port!” Doesn’t matter.
“I use IPv6!” Doesn’t matter.
“I’m just a nobody!” Doesn’t matter.
Practice safer networking, every time, all the time.