Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall

Re:Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy ... by runlevel1 on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:09PM (#33484013)

Congrats on releasing 1.0! It looks very cool. A few questions about Portmaster Unlimited and SPN:

1. Does Safing own and operate all the exit nodes or can folks add their own nodes to it?

2. Are you self-hosting the exit nodes? If not, I'm curious what cloud providers you use.

3. Have you found egressing through a bunch of different geolocated IPs for the same request triggers DDoS/anti-scraping systems (like Cloudflare) more than usual?

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Re:Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy ... by dhaavi on Saturday November 05, 2022 @02:15PM (#33484076)

Thanks!

1. Does Safing own and operate all the exit nodes or can folks add their own nodes to it?

Everyone can join. We also plan to compensate in some way in the future. Docs: https://docs.safing.io/spn/hosting-a-community-node

2. Are you self-hosting the exit nodes? If not, I'm curious what cloud providers you use.

We rent servers. If you have the SPN, you can click on every server on the map and check where it is hosted. Currently mainly Hetzner, OVH, Katamera, HostHatch. We regularly try new providers, rent a couple servers and see how it goes.

3. Have you found egressing through a bunch of different geolocated IPs for the same request triggers DDoS/anti-scraping systems (like Cloudflare) more than usual?

The client "pins" destination domains/IPs to an exit for an hour (scoped per app) in order to get more stability here. We had issues in the past.

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