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    • black3dynamiteB
      black3dynamite @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

      Manually block ad serving domains with EdgeOS.

      Does it consume any resources on the router?

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      • scottalanmillerS
        scottalanmiller @JaredBusch
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        @jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

        Manually block ad serving domains with EdgeOS.

        Not a fan of this, except for very small sites where I cannot run something like a Pi-Hole easily.

        Pretty good for just blocking one or two domains you want to go away. Not good as a general solution for ad blocking. But if you just want to knock out one or two that cause problems for you, it's decent.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller @black3dynamite
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          @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

          Manually block ad serving domains with EdgeOS.

          Does it consume any resources on the router?

          Some, not many. Unless the list is huge.

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          • JaredBuschJ
            JaredBusch @black3dynamite
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            @black3dynamite said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

            Manually block ad serving domains with EdgeOS.

            Does it consume any resources on the router?

            Of course it does. It has to perform look ups for all DNS requests. But they are local look ups, so they are fast, and happens before it bothers to go to the dns forwarding server. I like dnsmasq functionality.

            What I don't like is the scripting that happens during the 5am cron job.

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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              @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

              @jaredbusch said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

              @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

              Manually block ad serving domains with EdgeOS.

              Not a fan of this, except for very small sites where I cannot run something like a Pi-Hole easily.

              Pretty good for just blocking one or two domains you want to go away. Not good as a general solution for ad blocking. But if you just want to knock out one or two that cause problems for you, it's decent.

              For any non AD based site, the router is already the DNS server for the clients, and I can create a static host mapping for any URL I want to kill.

              The biggest thing to know, that the article does a good job of stating is that you need to disable DHCP assigned DNS from the WAN.
              Obviously, if you have a static WAN, this is not needed.

              # eth0 is the default WAN port on all modern wizard configs.
              set interfaces ethernet eth0 dhcp-options name-server no-update
              

              There have been posts and posts about this for years on the UBNT forums.

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              • JaredBuschJ
                JaredBusch @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                But if you just want to knock out one or two that cause problems for you, it's decent.

                @scottalanmiller Assuming the router is the DNS source, this accomplishes the same task for a simple 1 off.

                set system static-host-mapping host-name www3.doubleclick.net inet 0.0.0.0
                
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                • jmooreJ
                  jmoore @scottalanmiller
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                  @scottalanmiller Good article

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                  • dbeatoD
                    dbeato
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                    https://www.cio.co.nz/article/647021/icann-sets-plan-reinforce-internet-dns-security

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                    • dbeatoD
                      dbeato
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                      https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-acquires-nomad-the-leading-solution-for-streamlining-mac-authentication-and-account-management/

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                      • KellyK
                        Kelly @dbeato
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                        @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                        https://www.jamf.com/resources/press-releases/jamf-acquires-nomad-the-leading-solution-for-streamlining-mac-authentication-and-account-management/

                        That is fantastic news. We were using both of those in parallel. Having them integrated would be amazing.

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                        • DustinB3403D
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                          For @scottalanmiller

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                          • dbeatoD
                            dbeato
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                            https://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/introducing-cloudberry-backup-2-5-1-for-macos-linux

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                            • ObsolesceO
                              Obsolesce @dbeato
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                              @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                              https://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/introducing-cloudberry-backup-2-5-1-for-macos-linux

                              That's excellent!

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @dbeato
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                                @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                https://www.cloudberrylab.com/blog/introducing-cloudberry-backup-2-5-1-for-macos-linux

                                Finally

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                                • black3dynamiteB
                                  black3dynamite
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                                  https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2018/09/ubuntu-14-04-extended-security-maintenance-esm

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                                  • ObsolesceO
                                    Obsolesce
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                                    Windows Admin Center 1809 and SDK now generally available!

                                    https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/windowsserver/2018/09/20/windows-admin-center-1809-and-sdk-now-generally-available/

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                                    • dbeatoD
                                      dbeato
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                                      https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/09/21/warning-issued-as-netflix-subscribers-hit-by-phishing-attack/

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                                      • dbeatoD
                                        dbeato
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                                        https://www.zdnet.com/article/cloudflare-ends-captcha-challenges-for-tor-users/

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                                        • dbeatoD
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                                          https://www.androidauthority.com/google-keep-notes-906135

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @dbeato
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                                            @dbeato said in Miscellaneous Tech News:

                                            https://www.androidauthority.com/google-keep-notes-906135

                                            They can't keep a name, but can they keep your notes?

                                            Isn't this what they do about a year before discontinuing a product?

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