DNS - Rambles of Ev

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DNS

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Creating a DNS Black Hole for Captive Portal Clients - PFSenseDocs

Creating a DNS Black Hole for Captive Portal Clients – PFSenseDocs [http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Creating_a_DNS_Black_Hole_for_Captive_Portal_Clients] . If you need to direct all of your portal clients to a single page, but the clients can fail to redirect due to flaky DNS

Blocking Malicious Websites with DNS

Original article here: [http://getluks.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/transparent-squid-proxy-with-havp-virus-filter/] Using bind we can block malicious websites. apt-get install bind9 vi /etc/resolv.conf make localhost your name server vi /etc/bind/named.conf.options set up your dns forwarders (usually ISP DNS servers) vi /etc/bind/named.conf.