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I put up a vps with nginx and the logs show dodgy requests within minutes, how do you guys deal with these?

Edit: Thanks for the tips everyone!

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do client ssl verification.
Nobody but me or my household is supposed to access those anyway.
Any failure is a ban (I don't remember how long for).
I also ban every IP not from my country, adjusting that sometimes if I travel internationally.
It's much easier when you host stuff only for your devices (my case) and not for the larger public (like this lemmy instance).

[–] karlthemailman@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you have this set up? Is it possible to have a single verification process in front of several exposed services? Like as part of a reverse proxy?

[–] dinosaurdynasty@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Yup, there are many ways of doing that. Most reverse proxies should support basic auth (easy, but browser UX is terrible and it breaks websockets) or TLS client auth (even worse browser UX, phones are awful).

The best thing is do something like Caddy + Authelia (which is what I currently do with most things, with exceptions for specific user agents and IPs for apps that require it, aka non-browser stuff like Jellyfin),