Url un-shortners exist.

Dude…one of the most cornball things I’ve ever heard in my life but has some truth to it is ‘You can’t fix stupid.’ It’s 2026! Spool up. I would guess that the biggest portion of those morons are boomers, yet still, it’s 2026. I’m sorry to sound so harsh but I really tire of the older set especially, but pretty much anyone in a technologically developed country claiming not to be technologically inclined. They had no flipping problem learning FaceBook. ‘How to Use A Computer Tutorial’ search turns up thousands of tutorials on that very topic. Unless you live in a remote area or a technologically underdeveloped country where technology is not readily accessible to the common man, then yeah. I’m a septuagenarian and I learned. I have no certs, or diplomas, or any thing, which should be obvious, but I get by pretty decent I’d say. It’s pretty much attainable by the vast majority of people if they’d only put a little effort into it.

/rant

Didn’t down vote you, but if someone clicks a link without, at the very least, mousing over it to view the url, then you get what you get. One of the most effective anti-virus programs you can ever deploy on any system is your own prudence and discretion. It’s not the fault of the url shortner, it’s the moron clicking indiscriminately.

The term “Dograh” refers to an Indo-Aryan ethno-linguistic group primarily found in the Duggar region of Jammu and Kashmir, India. The name is believed to be derived from “Durgara,” an ancient kingdom mentioned in historical texts.

Accurate? I always find it fascinating where devs derive the name of their projects.

I’ve read a bit about portainer, but I’m still learning

I started with Portainer, and I still use it. It checks all the boxes for me. I would be remiss if I didn’t mention there are other such platforms to manage Docker containers with such as Podman, Dockage, etc. Like I said, I started with Portainer, and I know how to drive that bus, so I stuck with it.

Most likely reasons people don’t document right out of the gate is excitement of the moment, and I’ve got this tutorial I found…why would I need to document? However, I’ve found that writing it down in your own words seems to make it stick more for me. The way I have my notes, I could format the entire drive, and using notes alone, have the server back up and running full production in a solid day’s effort. Don’t be lulled into the notion that you’ll be able to remember everything 6 months down the road. That’s the devil talking Bobby Boucher.

“If I could tell myself this before I set everything up, I would say…”

TAKE PROLIFIC NOTES! Do it as you go. Then, when you have whatever you were working on the way you want it, go back and clean your notes up, and make them a part of your 3,2,1 back up policy. Make a road map of how you want everything to operate. That way, as you add to your server/network, all the pieces will be much tidier and easier to troubleshoot.

I use IPv6 local only. Everything else is IPv4. Reason being, my commercial VPN does not support IPv6 and I have reservations about leakage. My ISP already ships with IPv4 & IPv6.

my bone count is still 0

Truly sorry to hear that my man. There are meds that can get that bone count up.

I found an 8-year-old project on GitHub that had similar ideas but is unmaintained and not quite what I needed.

In the back on my mind I was thinking ‘I could have sworn I had seen Dockwell somewhere before’.

It’s one night of work, so take that for what it is

The honesty is refreshing.

It’s interesting for sure. I was intrigued when I saw OG Dockwell, but like you, saw it was quite stale.

Certainly. I don’t discount that any exploit is ‘really bad’. I like my OS of choice to be as free of exploits as it can possibly be. However, some of the material I was reading involved areas of Linux that I have little if any knowledge of value with, so I thought I’d as the question.

RFC: As I understand it this exploit requires local access and cannot be deployed remotely. Is this a correct analysis?

a month.

I do it for a whole year. lol

If this is real, I honestly do empathize with your situation. Try some local community outreach programs like food banks, child services, etc. There is no reason to be embarrassed by being down on your luck. Anyone who has lived on this planet for any length of time has been there too. I am sorry that I cannot help with your situation further, and I certainly hope you get things back on track for you and your family. Best wishes.

ETA: I am not aware of any such forums here on Lemmy that could help.

What I personally do is run an overlay VPN like tailscale and allow SSH in only via that.

Same. I use Tailscale as an overlay on the pFsense box and the server itself.

Just 54? Those are rookie numbers bro. You need to open up a few more ports. LOL Honestly tho, seems pretty standard. You could change the SSH port which might lower some of the noise but bots now days are pretty sophisticated and it would be trivial to just scan your server and find out which port is SSH. If you want to stop tailing fail2ban nervously on the daily, you could use the hosts.allow/hosts.deny which would lock it down even further. Just remember to set host.allow first then host.deny. You could also deploy any number of secondary security packages like CrowdSec, Wazuh, et al.

I’ll throw in my vote for pFsense. Pretty comprehensive package.

Weird

Dumbass here…why would a VPN block incoming connections? Seems counter to what a VPN does.

Absolutely. It’s quite effective.