This article explains a method of whitelisting one or more devices on your internal network so that pfBlockerNG doesn’t block those devices/servers due to any configured restrictions. For example, you might block a country using pfBlockerNG’s GeoIP filtering, but you may need one of your internal devices to be able
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Read moreThis article discusses the cause and solution to the error message “Cannot allocate memory” relating to pfBlockerBG. In this scenario, we’re using a Netgate 2100 Base firewall appliance. The firewall was receiving the following error message when reloading the filter rules (in “Status – Filter Reload“). There were error(s) loading
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This article describes a situation where the Synology 720+ NAS has poor write performance due to a disk issue. However, the NAS is not reporting an issue. SMART is reporting that everything is OK. First, the symptoms. The following two screenshots show the actual speed when the disk was in
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This article is a quick comparison of advert blocking for web browsing between pfBlockerNG DNS filtering, and the web browser plugin Ad Blocker. This is hardly scientific, but it does give an idea of how effective each are with basic settings. I’m sure with more effort, the impact could be
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This article shows how to configure the Synology NAS and UniFi switch to use multiple ethernet connections to increase speed. In this article, we’re using two Ethernet cables, but more is possible too. The hardware used in this article are: Synology NAS DS720+ running DSM 7.2.1-69057 Update 5 UniFi US-8-60W
Read moreThis article demonstrates how to install and configure the Zabbix Agent2. Our Zabbix server is already up and running, but the host (that we’re about to add) isn’t listed in Zabbix yet. On the Zabbix server: Log into the Zabbix web portal => Data collection => Hosts => Create host
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This article demonstrates how to install and configure a Squid proxy along with a WPAD to assist with client configuration. Paths to configuration files may vary between system types. Both http and https will work through this proxy. We’re going to install the Squid proxy and Apache web server on
Read moreThis article demonstrates how to allow access to specific directories while denying access to all other directories. We’re using Ubuntu 22.04 and Apache 2.4.58. We’ve got two directories that we want to explicitly allow access to: “east” and “west”. All other directories (existing or not) are denied with a “403”
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Windows likes to store documents and other content in OneDrive. But for those using Synology Drive, the idea of replacing the path from OneDrive to Synology Drive is attractive. Note that Synology Drive Client makes a great replacement for OneDrive except where it comes to shared locations. The Synology solution
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