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What if... I'd cut off all connections to China on my home network? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Note that GeoIP is unreliable so you may accidentally block some IPs that aren't Chinese. Even whois is not 100% reliable given how often IPv4 addresses are traded these days.

If some Chinese-made technology really phones home, it's more likely that they'd communicate with a US-based server that would then communicate to servers in China behind-the-scenes.