networking

OPNsense rewrites all outgoing UDP traffic by default - here's how to make Nebula work whilst traversing NAT which does this.

Pihole is a network wide ad blocker. Using DHCP we can tell every device on your network to automatically and transparently use Pihole for DNS. But what if you have custom DNS entries in your firewall? I use OPNsense but this process largely transposes to PFsense as well. When your laptop makes a DNS request, it is sent to Pihole. Pihole performs a lookup and if it can't find the requested address, forwards that request on to the next DNS server in the chain. If OPNsense has that DNS record in

A fresh out of the box Unifi Access Point has no idea what to do with itself. It starts scanning the local LAN for any controllers to 'announce' that it is here and needs configuration. But what about when your controller isn't on the LAN? Mine is running on a DigitalOcean droplet, for example. We need to tell the AP where the controller resides in order for the announcement to be successful. It's actually a relatively straightforward thing to solve but requires a few steps which I'll outline b