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What if... I'd cut off all connections to China on my home network? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by mikandesu@alien.top to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum

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I'm just curious, what if I'd use my pi-hole to block all connections from/to China on my home network. I have a good bit of automation in place, but mostly western solutions, yet still I wouldn't be surprised if they called China. Have any of you tried this kind of experiment? Is it even possible to block? What gone down?

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[–] Darklumiere@alien.top 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I block all inbound connections from China and Russia via GeoIP blocking in Opnsense and no one in my household has ever complained. Considering setting it up to blocking outgoing as well, but any Chinese device I'm suspicious of is already isolated from the WAN.

[–] Stormhunter6@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

good to know this is an innate feature of opnsense

[–] psychobobolink@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Well, just blocking incoming connections doesn't add much value. Besides if you also block already established connections, but then it would be easier saying blocking outgoing traffic.

[–] Swatieson@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

What's more suspicious than Alexa or our phones? The "bad guys' can do jack shit with our data but the "good guys" can fuck us up.