Yea, I don’t think this is necessarily a horrible idea. It’s just that this doesn’t really provide any extra security, but even the first line of this blog is talking about security. This will absolutely provide privacy via pretty good traffic obfuscation, but you still need good security configuration of the exposed service.
you still need good security configuration of the exposed service.
In a sense that security comes in layers, yes. But in practice, this setup will prevent 100% of bots scanning the internet for exposed services, and absolute majority of possible targeted attacks as well. It’s like using any other 3rd party VPN, except there’s not a central point for the traffic to flow through.
From the attackers point of view, nothing is listening there.
I’ve used a similar setup in the past to access a device behind a NAT (possibly multiple NATs) and a dynamic IPv4. Looking back, that ISP was a pure nightmare.
Yea, I don’t think this is necessarily a horrible idea. It’s just that this doesn’t really provide any extra security, but even the first line of this blog is talking about security. This will absolutely provide privacy via pretty good traffic obfuscation, but you still need good security configuration of the exposed service.
In a sense that security comes in layers, yes. But in practice, this setup will prevent 100% of bots scanning the internet for exposed services, and absolute majority of possible targeted attacks as well. It’s like using any other 3rd party VPN, except there’s not a central point for the traffic to flow through.
From the attackers point of view, nothing is listening there.
I’ve used a similar setup in the past to access a device behind a NAT (possibly multiple NATs) and a dynamic IPv4. Looking back, that ISP was a pure nightmare.