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Do I really need a firewall for my server? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 5 days ago by theselfhoster@sopuli.xyz to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I've been running my server without a firewall for quite some time now, I have a piped instance and snikket running on it. I've been meaning to get UFW on it but I've been too lazy to do so. Is it a necessary thing that I need to have or it's a huge security vulnerability? I can only SSH my server from only my local network and must use a VPN if I wanna SSH in outside so I'd say my server's pretty secure but not the furthest I could take it. Opinions please?

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 4 days ago

Just make sure you're using public key authentication and you're good

[–] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml -4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You do not even need a port based firewall when the server is open on the internet.

When you configure the software to not have unnecessary open ports over the internet connected interface then a port based firewall is providing zero additional security.

A port based firewall has the benefit that you can lock everything down to the few ports you actually need, and do not have to worry about misconfigured software.

For example, something like docker circumvents ufw anyway. And i know ppl that had open ports even tho they had ufw running.

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