Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important
Unfold1127@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoJust moved to an OPNsense network. Setting up unbound was so nice and simple. Much preferred over pihole.
Comment on Self-Hosting a DNS Sinkhole is really important
Unfold1127@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoJust moved to an OPNsense network. Setting up unbound was so nice and simple. Much preferred over pihole.
trojanbark@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Agreed. I used pihole initially when I was first learning networking, but when I got a dedicated machine and installed OPNsense, I learned how much easier so many things can be.
Unfold1127@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The downside is OPNsense is it’s information light, and a bit inscrutable lol I’m having an issue with my WAN dhcp going offline, seems to be happening on a cadence. My modem is fine, connection is valid. Rebooting the OPNsense box fixes it. Losing my mind a bit but I’ll figure it out 🙃
MuttMutt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Try setting a tunable of:
net.link.ether.inet.max_age = 540
By default FreeBSD sets a 20 minute ARP maximum age while many ONT’s set a 9 minute maximum age. This will show up as performance issues initially then cause other issues.
Also Realtek NIC’s are notorious for issues with FreeBSD, so if you are using one replacing it with an Intel one is highly recommended.
Unfold1127@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I believe it was the realtek NIC and some settings offloading to the hardware I set during troubleshooting. Installed the Realtek driver in the plugins and changed those settings and so far no instability! Thank you for the tunable suggestion though I will also be checking that out!