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Block Ads & Malvertising on pfSense Using pfBlockerNG (DNSBL)

November 13, 2020 Dallas Haselhorst Comments 185 comments

This walkthrough uses the DNSBL portion of pfBlockerNG to remove ads/advertising and more importantly, malvertising. It essentially creates a functionality similar to the pi-Hole project except it doesn’t require a separate piece of hardware. Instead, you just use your pfSense + pfBlockerNG! If you’re interested in a write-up on installing/configuring the pi-hole on Ubuntu, I have one here. Please note this walkthrough is for the devel version of pfBlockerNG. The pfBlockerNG-devel package is in the standard list of available packages…

Installing pi-hole on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

April 5, 2020 Dallas Haselhorst Comments 41 comments

In this guide, I will walkthrough how to install and test the pi-hole on Ubuntu and more specifically, Ubuntu Server. These same instructions may work on Ubuntu Desktop, but I strongly suggest Server. Why Ubuntu instead of a Raspberry Pi? I love Raspberry Pis and I probably own at least 10 of them. But sometimes I want to perform DNS blocking/blackholing and I either a) don’t have a Raspberry Pi in an environment or b) I have a virtual environment…

Block Ads & Malvertising on pfSense Using pfBlockerNG (DNSBL) – Old

January 4, 2018 Dallas Haselhorst Comments 50 comments

This walkthrough uses the DNSBL portion of pfBlockerNG to remove ads/advertising and more importantly, malvertising. It essentially creates a functionality similar to the pi-Hole project except it doesn’t require a separate piece of hardware. Instead, you just use your pfSense (pfBlockerNG)! If you’re interested in a write-up on installing/configuring the pi-hole on Ubuntu, I have one here. I love pfSense and if I could only install one package to enhance its capabilities, it would undoubtedly be pfBlockerNG. pfBlockerNG is a pfSense…

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