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?

  • Graham2990BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s a common feature in a lot of threat management software / firewall systems. Ubiquiti and pfSense both offer it off the top of my head. I’ve used both with no noticeable issues on smart / IOT devices.

  • SupergrungedBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Just put it on a seperate network, with no internet connection. Use a server as a passthrough, so you have control. Stay away from anythibg cloud based. Pretty easy stuff honestly.

  • HBGDawgBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Geoblocking is a pretty common practice in enterprise networking.

  • schultzy99BEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I block almost all Eastern Europe, Russia, the stans, almost all of Africa, Indonesia, China, North Korea and more. No problem. Unifi router allows users to just block by clicking the map.

  • AnApexBreadBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I block the entire cn TLD (and the RU, PK, Top, biz, info, and IN TLDs) and haven’t had any issues.

    I also go a step further and block all IPs in those geolocations in my Router.

  • good4y0uBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I do this. Generally no issues. I’m pretty sure some of the jank cheapo switches will route through the US or other proxy geo first anyway.