Like countless others, I got fed up with ad's on the interwebs enough to the point where I installed a Pi-hole to block them at the network level. And it did a brilliant job, I highly recommend setting one up on your own network. Except there was one minor issue, well more of an annoyance … Continue reading Adding hostnames to Pi-hole
Internet connections aren't always are robust as we'd like them to be. Sometimes they just stop working for no good reason, or the speed will drop to something less then optimal. Over the years I've seen many setups where a secondary internet connection is installed to act as a backup if the primary fails. This … Continue reading Redundant Internet with SD-WAN on a FortiNet
It's so easy to ignore IPv6. Our networks have all been happily grinding away on IPv4. And those boffins who came up with the idea of NAT, that's saved us all from having to worry about the ever shrinking pool of available addresses. Nobody likes change. IPv6 is confusing. And whose idea was it to … Continue reading Enabling IPv6 on a Fortigate
