Block Ads with DNS in OPNsense

First, something of a rant so everyone knows why I wrote this article, feel free to skip it if you like. There has been a lot of interest in ad blocking lately. I blame most of it on greedy website owners that force their users to endure very intrusive ads to turn a profit. Annoying…


UniFi Wireless Controller on CentOS 6.8

This post will describe the basic setup of Ubiquiti UniFi Wireless AccessPoint Controller software on CentOS. The UniFi controller software is designed to manage multiple Wireless Access Points sold by Ubiquiti Networks. These APs are super lightweight and run a very basic Linux CLI, by default they are only open to SSH for configuration, and they do…


Install Xen 4.6 on CentOS 6.8

I have multiple Xen hosts, and I figured that I should share the setup procedure that I use to make my Virtualization Hosts, so here it goes. First thing to do is make sure that your CPU supports hardware virtualization, otherwise you will only be able to create paravirtualized virtual machines. Host OS Installation: You…