Pfsense on Blue Iris PC or Separate PC?

Thanks for sharing the video, I’ll have to see if there’s anything new I can learn.

crw030 said:

Just keep a backup of your pfSense config (Diagnostics > Backup/Restore), I do this before I make any changes where I might fack something up as well.

Then if something happens, repair the faulty device/drive, reinstall pfSense, reload config. I already had to do this once...

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Thanks for the above hint. I am slowly getting pfSense figured out. Last night I put a temporary block rule on my BI pc and am watching the firewall log as Windows 10 tries desperately to call home.

I am now playing with pfBlockerNg DNSBL and am wondering how I could add a local Hosts file to the list of DNSBL feeds? I don't know if I can put that in the BI www folder or if I can put it on the pfSense machine? (EDIT-- I can do either)

Maybe an easier way is to create a github.com account, put put your hosts.txt there and add it pfBlockerNg DNSBL list.

Been a while since I last looked a pfSense, not sure if it can access a local file from pfBlockerNg DNSBL, but you try SSHing or log in locally into your box, see if you can create a myhosts.txt under /var/db/pfblockerng/deny/ or something, then add it to your DNSBL lists...

Yeah, there seems to be a way to make it read a local file, but my BI machine is always running, so I went to the Windows options and enabled IIS and can just plop the text file into the c:\inetpub\wwwroot folder. If I add that location to the the DNSBL feeds it should be able to read that file off of my BI machine (port 80 not 81). I guess the effect will be identical to having that HOSTS file installed on every computer.