How to Migrate from ISC DHCP to dnsmasq or Kea DHCP in OPNsense
ISC (Internet Systems Consortium) is the organization that developed and maintained the open source ISC DHCP server. In October 2022, ISC released the …
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Beginner's Guide to Set Up a Home Network Using OPNsense
My most popular guide at the time of this writing is how to set up a full network using OPNsense. In that guide, I combine many of the concepts I have …
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Set Up a Fully Functioning Home Network Using OPNsense
Since the publication of this guide, I have written a new guide which is aimed more towards beginners. The beginner’s guide focuses more on the …
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Confused about the DNS Configuration in OPNsense?
There are a number of places in OPNsense where you may configure various DNS options. Some of the options apply to the OPNsense system itself while …
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How to Configure DNS over TLS (DoT) Using Unbound DNS in OPNsense
Previously, I wrote about how to configure DNS over HTTPS using DNSCrypt-Proxy. Since Unbound DNS in OPNsense does not support DNS over HTTPS (DoH) …
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How to Configure Dynamic DNS in OPNsense
If you have any software/services hosted on your home network that you wish to access remotely, you may have encountered a situation in which your …
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Install Pi-hole on Proxmox and Use OPNsense Unbound DNS as Upstream DNS
Several years ago I wrote some guides on setting up Pi-hole using Portainer on a Raspberry Pi. Since that time, I have decommissioned Pi-hole in favor …
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Unbound DNS Override Aliases in OPNsense
Unbound DNS provides the ability to create DNS overrides, which allows you to manually configure the IP addresses that are returned by DNS lookups for …
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