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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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[โ€“] 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.

[โ€“] Stormhunter6@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

good to know this is an innate feature of opnsense

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