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Should I get a firewall appliance? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 5 days 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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[-] PumpkinEscobar@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Hopefully you’re only forwarding the minimal set of network ports and not all ports/traffic? If so then you’re good, like someone else said if you’ve got a router and it’s forwarding selected traffic then no need for anything else

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