DNS Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/tag/dns/ Trying to learn just a bit! Mon, 30 Dec 2024 18:11:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/geekistheway.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-Screen-Shot-2022-06-05-at-18.01.59.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 DNS Archives - Geek is the Way! https://geekistheway.com/tag/dns/ 32 32 149526228 Overriding external domains DNS Bind9’s Response Policy Zone on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 05:15:52 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2148 On a previous post, we’ve discussed how to use Bind9 on your pfSense in a way that external names were forwarded to name servers while internal names were statically resolved by Bind. In this post, we are going to discuss how to override the IPs returned by external name servers with IPs of our choosing....

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/overriding-external-domains-dns-bind9s-response-policy-zone-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 1 2148 Configuring DHCP Dynamic Host registration on DNS Bind9 on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:51:28 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2145 On a previous post, we’ve discussed how to use Bind9 on your pfSense in a way that external names were forwarded to other name servers and internal names were statically resolved. In this post, we are going to integrate pfSense’s DHCP Server and Bind9, so that when DHCP assigns an IP to a device, it...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dhcp-dynamic-host-registration-on-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 1 2145 Configuring DNS Bind9 on your pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/#comments Sat, 18 Mar 2023 04:11:48 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=2140 If there is one annoying thing on pfSense that seems to be never fixed is its DNS Resolver service called Unbound. Release after release, the Netgate folks still struggle to identify and fix the random crashes, unexpected restarts and whatnot. In this post, we are going to install Bind9, a very solid DNS server, to...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2023/03/18/configuring-dns-bind9-on-your-pfsense/feed/ 3 2140 How to host multiple domains using HAProxy as reverse proxy on pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2022/10/17/how-to-host-multiple-domains-using-haproxy-as-reverse-proxy-on-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2022/10/17/how-to-host-multiple-domains-using-haproxy-as-reverse-proxy-on-pfsense/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2022 05:02:22 +0000 https://geekistheway.com/?p=1955 In previous posts it was discussed how to create a DMZ network and host a website from a isolated VLAN on your network. That is a powerful resource, but with the limitation of not being possible to use a friendly FQDN such as geekistheway.com or mydomain.com as the frontend for the websites. This post will...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2022/10/17/how-to-host-multiple-domains-using-haproxy-as-reverse-proxy-on-pfsense/feed/ 3 1955 Issuing Let’s Encrypt certificates on your pfSense using ACME! https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/25/issuing-lets-encrypt-certificates-on-your-pfsense-using-acme/ https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/25/issuing-lets-encrypt-certificates-on-your-pfsense-using-acme/#comments Fri, 26 Jun 2020 01:53:00 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=239 If you are like me and don’t want unencrypted data flowing on your network or maybe even on Internet, than this post is for you! I will adopt CloudFlare DNS as it has API to integrate with Let’s Encrypt SSL services through the ACME plugin. Both CloudFlare and Let’s Encrypt are free, so that is...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/25/issuing-lets-encrypt-certificates-on-your-pfsense-using-acme/feed/ 9 239 Blocking… or trying to… DNS over HTTPS (aka DoH) https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/23/blocking-or-trying-to-dns-over-https/ https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/23/blocking-or-trying-to-dns-over-https/#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2020 00:18:55 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=235 This post is complementary to a previous POST protecting your network from malicious DNS. Here we are going to leverage a recent addition to pfBlockerNG: a brand new DoH feed! What is the big deal in allowing DNS over HTTPS (aka DoH) on your network?! Well, users can bypass the DNS over TLS of your...

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]]> https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/23/blocking-or-trying-to-dns-over-https/feed/ 2 235 Protect your DNS requests using pfSense https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/21/protect-your-dns-requests-using-your-pfsense/ https://geekistheway.com/2020/06/21/protect-your-dns-requests-using-your-pfsense/#comments Sun, 21 Jun 2020 19:23:55 +0000 http://crepaldi.us/?p=210 Configuring pfSense DNS Resolver Many ISPs or other Internet service providers collect information for commercial reasons (selling your profile for directed advertisement) or otherwise. pfSense allows you to use DNS with TLS to encrypt your request in a way that only you and the DNS provider can see it. DNS over TLS is not supported...

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