My pleasure. It was a good question, I think I'll even include a note on that in the post when I get home this evening and can edit.

Cheers!

That's a great question!

No, blocking a node -- router or other -- will only block packets originating from that node. All traffic that is forwarded by that node, but originating from others will still be received.

Ultimately, the only place that blocking nodes strategically makes sense is on high utilization routers. If you're just blocking nodes on a client, it's not changing channel or airtime utilization for the rest of the mesh. That said though, if someone is harassing you then a block on a client is still fully worth it. 🙂

Meshcore does address some of the biggest shortfalls of Meshtastic, but I absolutely HATE that they're positioned to either rugpull, or setup a perpetual "freemium" model. It's also not interoperable, so if Meshcore is to work, it needs the numbers like Meshtastic has.

False positive what? I didn't give any specific examples of alerts, just simply monitoring metrics. Are you referring to the note on the Dnsmasq memory leak?

Why the hell is the text tilted? Am I going crazy?

Excellent! Let me know if there are specific things you'd like to hear about.

I would love to if I had them! Haha. I'm working on the dashboard right now, which will be part two.

I don't have a great answer on the IOPS requirement, but I imagine it's less than something based on elasticsearch/open search based on the reindexing. I'll try and benchmark it if possible.

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Hey, the journey is the destination sometimes. Glad you liked it!

Awesome! Thanks for the banter. It's easy to get stuck in your own echo chamber working IT every day, so it's nice to have these kinds of questions. Feel free to drop anything into comments too, maybe other readers will benefit too!

Ah yes, those examples were helpful and definitely helped inspire this. Glad you found some value in the ramblings. Post 2 will be up soon.

No one has mentioned anything about how CISA -- as gutted as they are -- has stepped up to ensure funding for the next 11 months. CVEs aren't going anywhere.