 pf blocker ng version 2.1.2 underscore to Development has been released now. I'm not using this in production, but I did spin up my lab machine so I can You know play around with this a little bit. It's like I said not completely released, but it's close and This developer has been great. I like I saw links. You can follow him and follow him on Twitter as well But yes, there is a new version out now pf blocker is an excellent tool I've done videos on this before and it's great for blocking things. It's great at blocking lots of things both internal and external threats I really like it, but it's not been wonderful at reporting things now if you follow in my channel I did another video on the piehole and this is where things get kind of cool He integrated some of the piehole reporting features Into the new pf blocker, so I'm not going to read every little change in here But I'll leave of course links so you can do this But let's show you because that's why you're probably watching this So you can see but you can see there's a lot of changes that are listed in here now First off in order to get this In order to get this I was unable to find it in the packages Even after I forced updated my packages So I switched over to the development version of pf sense and it showed up There's some comments in the reddit post about that problem and he's going to be reaching out to the pf sense developers to kind of sort out why that is So you're supposed to be able to find it. Well, once again, this is all development and not necessarily for production So I switched to the development version of pf sense which you can do by going to update And switch to development snapshot Now one of the comments he made was that you Uninstall if you already have pf blocker configured you uninstall it but keep settings and then you install development versions So make sure you do it in that order because you'll have problems if you don't so I actually because this is my dev box. It's always loaded clean Fresh before I start anything. So I didn't have to worry about that Now the first thing you notice is and I'll drag this up to the top Is the pf blocker has This so ip dns. So right away you can start seeing what's been blocked I have the piehole list and porn block enabled so I could find some stuff You know for testing purposes. We had to test some sites And we tested some porn sites. Hey, why not and it did indeed block them So here's some of the different things you get. So we're going to go ahead and it's got regular log files We're going to jump right to the reporting of it now It will show you which I which computer Nicely organized and then from here We can unlock the domain Uh threat domain lookup White list the domain and this is kind of nice. So you can do some tuning right here And I haven't really tested to see if all this how well it all works Uh, it does work in terms of blocking because this is the computer that I was using to block it Let me show you what the block looks like Now this is my computer that's behind The pf sense And you can tell it works and for just so people who want to know I use connect wise control to control things Someone's going to ask what I'm using to connect this computer This is our remote tool that we use for most of our clients. It's also really convenient to Take remote control of a machine that I set up in my lab here behind the firewall anyways So it does this it's got a nice little website porn hub is in blocked by a network administrator You know once again as pf blocker you can dig into the details and do customization Once this gets released fully I will be doing a video on it Covering all the new features Now I also want to show you a lot the ad blocking Real quick how that looks like so here is bleeping your peter to verge cryptocurrency And that's why I have this pulled up here. So I have all these ads at the top that are rotating around And you can see there's none. So it's just cleans that up, which is you know However, you feel about ads it does do some of the cleanup on that so that part's been working So functionally wise I've been playing around with it for a little bit Well since I found this this morning and that does work fine as far as that goes So let's go ahead and refresh the page and we'll dig more into the reporting because I see that's a big feature Besides some of the look and feel of it So let's actually go into some of the reports here So I refreshed it and we can see like it blocked the twitter here It blocked some twitter images. I'm guessing this is some of the ad blocking ad blocking Yeah ad Feed protected. So it's it's nice. It is showing all that so let's go and look at some of the other logs that are in here We have a stats page This is for some of the external blocking ip permits that ip match stats Then we have this this is what I mentioned was more similar to the piehole. We have the dnsml slats stats So top block domains And it lets you dig into and start filtering these so like right here. It's all the different Threat lookups for facebook, which I thought was kind of funny It does block facebook when I set it up out of default. So that's definitely a thing Then you can filter for only the blocks related to facebook So for anything you go on there when you're looking up these reports, it will then bring you to a filter so you can start finding them Uh, it's windows. So watson.telemetry.microsoft.com. Uh, it blocks that As we know though, uh, because this is using dns blocking a microsoft still phones home via ip if you really want to stop any of the Microsoft stuff you're going to have to go through and do ip blocking newsroom.facebook.com was blocked google tag services So just a couple websites like that hardly opened anything and right away it's right away blocking things now when you create the rules It's telling you which rules, um, it was blocked So I had the piehole rule and a dnsml rule list enabled and you go over here to dnsml dnsml easy list and they're pretty simple to do so we're just going to turn this on on and then you can hold this and Hold the control key and select all the ones you want. So we'll just say that tracking services scroll down save Configuration and away we go now go back to my machine over here and Show you more stuff Try and find something that doesn't just land on These pages. So let's see There we go nine to five mac.com So it should create some stats. I mean with this out of the way now It reports dnsml stats and it got even bigger for all the things in here So this is pretty cool And I think this is uh something interesting is showing You know statistics on all the stuff that was blocked and start being able to dig into it Some of the feed lists. So, uh, the steve's list is in there for the piehole if you're not familiar with it The machine being blocked the wind 10 on zen Uh source ip account. I do have another Box running in here and it's doing some dns lookups I'll test these later once it comes out of beta. Uh, these are going to be your ip matching for Uh, some of the inbound stuff. This is in a private network So I'd have to stage an attack on it to make that work. So that's there's that Uh, wow, does it want to wait? Oh discuss.com. That was model the new sites use that So it looks like from here. I can then start going through And set alerts or alert filter, which is kind of cool. They have this built in So we can Source this computer. So let's see what do we have here apply filter So we can filter out, you know a single computer We can probably filter out a single website And then we can probably go in here and, uh Waitlist facebook.com Yep Wildcar wait lists Yes We can't live without the facebook's Remove facebook.com dnspelli need to flush our dns cache. All right, let's see if that fixes it Actually, we'll close this And we'll close porn hub. I'm not gonna un List that one And facebook is now wait listed. Well, kind of All right, it's still blocking more from facebook because it's still it's not logging in properly It's missing a big piece of it. It looks like it's not rendering all of it So let's go back here to our alerts real quick What else are we blocking? fcbdn.net. All right, we got to add that so add this one here hit okay wildcar wait list yes more facebook Flush the dns open up the browser And now facebook shows up like it's supposed to so Yeah, definitely, uh In some improvements here I like the kind of simplicity of it being able to make notes in here because one of the problems with filtering Is the Amount of things that get blocked that are often legit business things that you need or have a use for in your business Or even at home you just have to get something done and you know it got caught up on there So being able to go through here see what's being blocked create logs and create your notes This is the real sauce. This is a lot of times what you pay for Uh a lot of blocking is not really the blocking or the technology It's these lists and this is the work part of setting up any of these I've talked about this a couple times before the a lot of the labor that goes into Any of these block lists is keeping them maintained and keeping the good stuff on the bad stuff off That's always the trickiest part of them, but this is great if it's in beta Like I said, I found it by switching to the development version of pf sense They're supposed to be able to run it in the non dev version I'll leave you to the link to the reddit on there But yeah, this is definitely a great refresh on just on everything from the interface to the abilities the reports are really cool I'm looking forward to this now. I'll dive much deeper into it once It's fully released so I can play with it, but I'm really liking it so far just with a little bit I've been playing with it here. I don't know if I'm ready to put it on my network Because it's in beta still but I'm sure it'll be out of beta soon because my a little bit of testing with it It seems to actually work really good. So all right. Thanks for watching Hopefully this is helpful and uh check out pf blocker ng and if you're a fan of it, uh like I am Be a patron. I definitely don't eat money this project. I keep this. He's a lone developer doing this here So, uh, throw some money at him if you use it if you got a couple dollars to spare Any any little bit helps these developers and things like that and that information's all listed there Also, by the way, they did list it on the page here as well So where to find them follow them on twitter reddit github contact Well, do I not I don't see a link to this patreon, but don't worry you can find it So, uh, get on there and donate some money to this guy. Definitely. Oh good. This home page is patreon So become a patron of it. 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