pfSense

Automatically renew WAN lease on pfSense without rebooting
Automatically renew WAN …

Intro Every now and again I would wake up to my internet being down while my local network being fine. This usually happened when my ISP renewed my assigned IP overnight. The only solution was to reboot my pfSense VM to force the IP lease renewal. Searching the web I discovered it was not uncommon …

Set up multiple domains on one public IP using HAProxy on pfSense
Set up multiple domains …

Intro I recently acquired a second domain for one of my projects and wanted to set this up behind the HAProxy instance in my firewall. The problem was that I was already serving my primary domain with it, so I was looking to serve my secondary one as well. It was not as straightforward as I thought …

Homelab
Homelab

Intro This is just a post to describe my homelab setup and make it linkable where needed (like in my resume). This is most definitely subject to change at any time as I continue to play with new technologies and keep adding things! Hosts My homelab consists of a one node proxmox host and a …

Whitelisting in Suricata Package for pfSense
Whitelisting in Suricata …

Intro After tirelessly looking for a solution in order to dynamically create a whitelist for Suricata based on DNS, I decided to create my own. Download the necessary files Create a whitelist file with all the domains you wish whitelisted. A useful starting point is anudeepND’s collection of …