I’m using OPNSense Unbounded DNS feature for intercepting DNS Queries on the network and perform many tasks like forwarding DNS Queries throw VPN, Blacklist/Whitelist and etc. Unbounded DNS Blacklist/Whitelist gives you protection at DNS layer against Malware, Ads, Tracking, Phishing, etc. There is many layers of protections OPNSense provide like Suricata, Sensei & Unbounded DNS. Each one of them handle different type of threats and mechanisms to deal with it. To activate… Read More
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OPNSense Removes OpenVPN Advanced Settings: A Security Flaw?
OPNSense has removed the Advanced section from the new OpenVPN version, citing security reasons. Many users believe this is unfounded, as it hindered the ability of experienced users to customize OpenVPN settings. The removal is seen as reducing software flexibility and not enhancing security as claimed.
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Category: Pulses Tags: Advanced Settings, cybersecurity, Firewall Security, IT Infrastructure, Network Administration, Network Management, Open Source Software, openvpn, opnsense, System Hardening, Tech Commentary, VPN Configuration
OPNSense DNS BlackList Management
I’m using OPNSense Unbounded DNS feature for intercepting DNS Queries on the network and perform many tasks like forwarding DNS Queries throw VPN, Blacklist/Whitelist and etc. Unbounded DNS Blacklist/Whitelist gives you protection at DNS layer against Malware, Ads, Tracking, Phishing, etc. There is many layers of protections OPNSense provide like Suricata, Sensei & Unbounded DNS. Each one of them handle different type of threats and mechanisms to deal with it. To activate… Read More
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Category: Technology Tags: astrogrep, blacklist, blocking, DNS, opnsense, regexmagic, unbounded
OPNSense Avoid VPN Traffic Leak
After using OPNSense firwall for a while to tunnel my traffic throw VPN directly from the network infrastructure level, i’m really satisficed with the experience but while i’m monitoring the firewall traffic, i discovered a traffic leaking happen in some cases. VPN traffic should go to the VPN Interface, but i find a traffic on the WAN Interface which originated from the LAN to VPN and the firewall pass it and that… Read More
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Category: Technology Tags: avoid, egress, firewall, leak, NO_WAN_EGRESS, opnsense, traffic, vpn
OPNSense Resize Disk Space
After while of using OPNSense firewall, i needed to resize my disk on ESXi and scale up the disk space for OPNSense. After investigating this issue online, i found that i need to resize the disk from command line and i could not find one clear source to help me on this task. The problem for me was the swap partition, cause the new free space appended on the end of the… Read More
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Category: Technology Tags: Disk, esxi, freebsd, gpart, opnsense, resize, swap, UFS, VMWare
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