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Pho3nix said:
Block all IPs except your home IP and add tailscale exit node to either the server or your home server etc.
can’t be open.

Funny enough, started a new instance last night of Adguard and it isn’t working ie. No traffic from my home network for some reason. Port 80 and 53 open but still no dice.

Nothing in logs either about requests from my phone or home network
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I use Tailscale exit node on there hope that’s all good
 
Speedster said:
I didn't realise DNS was against their terms of service. Oops. I was using it for my phone which obviously has a dynamic IP. I guess I'm going to have to come up with another plan.
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Public DNS is abusable so I get where they're coming from
 
Speedster said:
I have adguard running on my home server for all devices at home. This Oracle one is for my phone when I'm away from home WiFi.
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OpenVPN or another VPN service you can connect to and route through
 
PsyWulf said:
OpenVPN or another VPN service you can connect to and route through
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I actually see Adguard has a public DNS available. I'll give that a go for now - can't see why it shouldn't do what needs to be done.
 
Speedster said:
I actually see Adguard has a public DNS available. I'll give that a go for now - can't see why it shouldn't do what needs to be done.
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Ah yes they do,it's actually my primary upstream for pihole
 
Hmm. I'm also running adguard but haven't gotten a notification yet. I am however only allowing some IPs.
 
Is this like having an Always on PC in the Cloud?

What would some of the uses be except a media server?
Hmm storage as well I guess
And using it as a sandbox for suspect apps?

Although I could see this getting you banned or disallowed
 
I'm able to log in to my instance but can't seem to be able to anything - everything just says I'm not authorised to see/do anything. When I go Administration -> Tenancy details it shows Failed. Does anyone have any idea how to recover this instance, or do I write it off as dead and register a new one?

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I managed to register a new tenancy. Bit crazy for the next two weeks, but I'll set up a new adguard home server early December. Any suggestions how best to protect it?
 
Speedster said:
I managed to register a new tenancy. Bit crazy for the next two weeks, but I'll set up a new adguard home server early December. Any suggestions how best to protect it?
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I have Wireguard permanently switched on my phone tunnelled into my house where I use NextDNS. You can do the same to Oracle but convenient to access LAN resources at home whenever I need. Wireguard is fast and very reliable with minimal drain on the phone battery. In addition I use Brave for browsing so its been a very long time since I have been able to see internet ads.
 
Speedster said:
I managed to register a new tenancy. Bit crazy for the next two weeks, but I'll set up a new adguard home server early December. Any suggestions how best to protect it?
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Hotfuzz said:
I have Wireguard permanently switched on my phone tunnelled into my house where I use NextDNS. You can do the same to Oracle but convenient to access LAN resources at home whenever I need. Wireguard is fast and very reliable with minimal drain on the phone battery. In addition I use Brave for browsing so its been a very long time since I have been able to see internet ads.
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I've become a true believer of CloudFlare's Zero Trust model.
I see they have a Android "warp" client, might be worth a try.

The Zero Trust model is that you install a Zero Trust client inside your network, that client will open a connection to CloudFlare.
There are no open ports on your firewall or anything like that.

Then CloudFlare will connect back over that connection into your network.
The benefit of this is that CloudFlare is the front for your network.
You can then choose auth models too.

For example, you can use your Google account for Auth. (and google itself implements all kinds of 2 factor options)
Another option is to lock it down to a country and/or ASN (even more extreme lockdown).
You can also combine these, ie. Google Auth + Country Lockdown + ASN lockdown

I'm doing everything over HTTPS so I don't need a WARP client but maybe it'll work well for you guys.
 
Gnome said:
I've become a true believer of CloudFlare's Zero Trust model.
I see they have a Android "warp" client, might be worth a try.

The Zero Trust model is that you install a Zero Trust client inside your network, that client will open a connection to CloudFlare.
There are no open ports on your firewall or anything like that.

Then CloudFlare will connect back over that connection into your network.
The benefit of this is that CloudFlare is the front for your network.
You can then choose auth models too.

For example, you can use your Google account for Auth. (and google itself implements all kinds of 2 factor options)
Another option is to lock it down to a country and/or ASN (even more extreme lockdown).
You can also combine these, ie. Google Auth + Country Lockdown + ASN lockdown

I'm doing everything over HTTPS so I don't need a WARP client but maybe it'll work well for you guys.
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I have considered this. Only issue is that I am using Mikrotik which only supports this with containers so a bit too fragile for my liking. Hope they create a native package then this would definitely be the way to go for me.
 
I started using an Oracle VPS for a Minecraft bedrock server for the kids and their cousins, using this Docker container: https://github.com/TheRemote/Legendary-Bedrock-Container

Works pretty well, even running on AMD ARM processors with x86 translation (they insist that they want a pure bedrock server as opposed to a Java server).

Even taught my 11 year old how to SSH into the server, check the container's logs and shut the server down or restart it :)
He uses FileZilla to SFTP into the server to copy files (Minecraft server resource packs) to it too.
 
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