Comments on: Appliance building with pfSense – Introducing pfDNS!

By: Rick L

Rick L — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:57:42 +0000

A stand alone DNS is what I would like to use locally. I see this is possibly fallen prey to other priorities. Too bad, an updated version would be very helpful.

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 03:12:48 +0000

I agree with John, i would love to use this package/appliance but theres no easy way to import/script previous configs over. Hopefully this functionality will be added soon.

By: edong

edong — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:58:16 +0000

Any updates on this nice project from Pfsense?

By: John Carter

John Carter — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:03:11 +0000

Curious as to what is the best way to get data into a new PFDns system. I see that pfdns can sync to other dns servers, but how about it sucking the data from an existing server and then turn pfdns into the primary for the zone.

By: Chris Buechler

Chris Buechler — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:51:28 +0000

phase: doesn’t necessarily have to be a dedicated piece of hardware, though an ALIX runs at around 3-5 watts so you can run a bunch of them and use less power than a single PC or server. More commonly I would expect to see this kind of thing running on a virtual machine.

By: phase

phase — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:21:04 +0000

In the beginning, computers were slow. One of them was needed to host each service. We had a mail server, a web server, a DNS server, a proxy server, everything ran on dedicated hardware. As time passed by, the computers became faster, thus allowing multiple appliances to run on a single computer. Man upgraded to faster systems that could run it all on less hardware. Now, under the motto of energy conservation, we step back into the realm of slower, dedicated computers. Kind of like the fashion cycles. Other than that, nice project. I might do a pfIRC server if I can find the time, I like the dedicated appliance ideology.

By: Rainer

Rainer — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 19:31:09 +0000

I tried the FreeBSD 8.0-based version.
I installed it in a VM, with a single interface.
But when I go to Services->DNS Servers, I get a 404.
Probably the install went bad.
Does anybody have a working VM (vmware)?

Too bad it’s still alpha. I would need something like pfDNS now.

Best Regards,
Rainer

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 07:34:34 +0000

What’s the status of pfDNS? Is this still the best ISO to use:

http://cvs.pfsense.com/~sullrich/pfDNS/pfDNS.iso

… or is this a better one:

http://cvs.pfsense.com/~sullrich/pfDNS/pfDNS-09-24-09.iso.gz

From the looks of it, the latter is the newest one … but maybe not the best?

Thx

By: George

George — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:41:42 +0000

Hi,

I ams looking for a new solution for firewalls/VPN and DNS for a client and have be pointed to this.

I am a newbie to this and found it hard to work out how to build this pfdns and what is required.

Are there any step by step instructions for “Dummies” on how to complete this including what packages are required?

Thanks
George

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:32:51 +0000

This is exactly what I am looking for. Single purpose (well dns/dhcp) so that I let others in and manage dns/dhcp and not have them on pfsense router.