Here’s a random thought that occurred to me, on my way to work this morning (VFR, if you’re interested).<\/p>\n
What would happen to all those weird port calls if I shut port 80 on my firewall?<\/p>\n
They would get bounced, obv.<\/p>\n
They would probably get an ‘unreachable’ error.<\/p>\n
But would they go away (in something like six months)?<\/p>\n
I’m tempted to give it a shot.<\/p>\n
Of course, I’d have to move the hosted domains to another location, but I’ve already proven (and documented here) how easy that is.<\/p>\n
And it would take maybe 15 minutes to migrate the websites (and their databases) that I host to another place.<\/p>\n
But what difference would there be, do you suppose, between my firewall\/router logs now, and my firewall\/router logs six months after I closed port 80?<\/p>\n
I’m sufficiently intrigued as to be considering the idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a random thought that occurred to me, on my way to work this morning (VFR, if you’re interested). What would happen to all those weird port calls if I shut port 80 on my firewall? They would get bounced, obv. They would probably get an ‘unreachable’ error. But would \u2026 Continue reading