I have a host name whose dns points to my home IP. I use this for game servers for my buddies. Should I be worried about my home IP being easily accessible like this, and should I get a physical firewall appliance to protect myself?

Servers are running Windows Server 2019 and Mac OSX.

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It depends. If you’re forwarding a lot of ports then maybe, but just a home gaming server? Probably not a big deal.

Just don’t forward ports for remote control and you’ll be fine, especially RDP (3389 IIRC), and SSH…

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