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What if... I'd cut off all connections to China on my home network? (alien.top)
submitted 2 years ago by [B] to c/homenetworking@selfhosted.forum
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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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[–] [B] 1 point 2 years ago

I have denied all then only white listed US, US outlying areas, and Canada. I don’t do business outside those. This is at the firewall/IP level. Blocking outgoing DNS would probably only affect maybe Alibaba. TikTok for instance runs domestic servers so you have to explicitly block Bytedance.

The number of random attacks per day from China, Russia, and Singapore is hundreds. That’s what firewalls are for.

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