ULTROS_PROFESSIONALNov 13, 2022

okay, i'm gonna have a crack at setting up a mastodon instance!

feel free to mute if this is fucking annoying!

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for background! i am a loser #bsd nerd and have twice previously tried to port mastodon to #freebsd and #openbsd respectively, this time i am giving in and installing linux
Show threadULTROS_PROFESSIONALNov 13, 2022
i've set up debian 11 on my vps and have locked down ssh, next step is to figure out what the hell is going on with linux firewalls these days (god i wish i could just use pf)
Show threadEricNov 13, 2022
@ultros_professional I'm not sure what Debian does/if they have a nice front-end, but nftables has a quasi-pf type syntax. more-so than iptables at least.
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@ejstacey yeah i'm reading nftables docs right now
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Show threadEricNov 13, 2022
@ultros_professional I can share my conf if it helps you. used to do masquerading to act as a router but is now just a firewall
Show threadULTROS_PROFESSIONALNov 13, 2022

@ejstacey i'm happy with the simple server rules i just wrote, but may well hit you up down the road!

thanks a bunch!

Show threadEricNov 13, 2022
@ultros_professional all good! have fun! haha
Show threadkauerNov 13, 2022
@ejstacey @ultros_professional pf might have been ported to Debian... it's an installable package on ubuntu (apparently, I haven't actually tried it)
Show threadULTROS_PROFESSIONALNov 13, 2022

@kauer @ejstacey yeah that code is probably a very stale holdover from the debian/kfreebsd experiment

pf sucks even on freebsd, it so tightly integrated with the openbsd kernel that's really the only place to use it

i guess a better way of phrasing this would be "i wish these fucking node packages would compile on openbsd"