Firewall on Technical Notes

Home Pi-hole

Sun, 20 Jun 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Pi-hole is a DNS (and DHCP) server that protects your devices from unwanted content, without needing to install any software on the clients in your network. Its use case is to act as a sinkhole for the advertising that floods today’s networks. Yes, a small Linux PC with Pi-hole on your home network to prevent tons of ads from reaching you while you browse.

OpenVPN Server

Sun, 14 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In this technical post I’ll describe how to set up a home VPN Server based on OpenVPN, which remains the best solution today despite being more complex to implement. The goal is to have access to the internal services of my home network from the internet.

IPtables with nflog

Sun, 31 Aug 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Geek quote: “Logging what happens is wise…” In the past I used ULOG to analyze which packets were being dropped by iptables, but since it’s been marked as deprecated I’ve switched to NFLOG.