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by ahnick 2010 days ago
ah, okay. Yes, I missed that. So the point of nftables then is just to avoid sending REJECT messages, so it makes it harder to determine what port wireguard is operating on?
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Yes, it is my preference: When you drop packets, they stop costing you anything further, where rejecting them generates more work for you. And, you are providing attackers free information that you don't need to.

I am not sure the nftables configuration I have is right... It might permit using my bounce server to forward packets that then appear to come from it, if they happen to mention the right port. I would welcome advice.

After further investigation, I have discovered that dyndns would not solve my problem, because the firewall at one end is especially picky; even zerotier and tailscale admit (grudgingly) that they use bounce servers for such clients.