I’ve migrated from cloudflare pages to cloudflare tunnels as I wanted to do a little bit more.

I can’t segregate my network as my ISPs router is rather limited, which means no vLANs. Connecting another router would introduce a double nat as they don’t allow bridging. So I’m running my website basically “raw” in a hyperV virtual machine. the website is semi-static and made out of flatfiles, therefore it’s is quite impossible to login into it. as stated before i’m using cloudflare tunnels to expose a nginx server to the interner. what are the chances someone or something (bot) inflataring my network? 100% safety is not possible but how safe am i?

  • djgizmo@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The only thing a CF tunnel does is protect your home IP. Doesn’t protect the app or server you’re exposing.

    • amizzo@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well it does slightly more than just obfuscating your home IP, in that it will also do automatic bot, DDOS prevention, etc…

      • djgizmo@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Nothing will stop a general scan from happening. Especially if it’s a slow scan.

        Scans won’t trigger dos/ddos alerts.

        • amizzo@alien.topBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Well yeah, that would get your host IP…if they’re doing a general scan of whole ISP IP ranges (Which nothing could really stop, except for a good firewall). But there is much more low-hanging fruit for hackers than to scan tens of thousands of unoccupied subnets.

          • djgizmo@alien.topBEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Ilulz. Automated scans cost nothing in resources. That would not find a host IP, it’d find the public Ip and open port.

            • amizzo@alien.topBEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I would consider time a pretty major resource…and yes, you are correct I misspoke/typed. I meant public IP, not host IP…

              Anyway, the point is not to prevent all attack vectors (which is impossible, unless you’re totally offline/air-gapped/etc), OP wants to minimize the probability of infiltration. So to get back to the question, yes CF tunnels help with that when implemented correctly.

        • pastelstocking@alien.topOPBEnglish
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          1 year ago

          tunnels are reverse-portforwarding. ports aren’t open on my network but on theirs.

          anyways i moved back on VPS because im not 100% sure what is my ISPs stance lmao. and since i cant have much control with my internal network for now, id rather stay away but i def wanna host at home eventually