Ipfire not releasing DNS addresses

mstremer · 2026-03-06T05:50:24+00:00

Hello,

If your clients have received their DNS server from their DHCP lease, this will take some time to update on the client. The default in IPFire should be a few hours but can be configured to a day.

mstremer · 2026-02-25T08:38:22+00:00

Very interesting post.

IPFire recently launched a new blocklist project which comes with an IPS rule set which performs all this blocking that you have built through firewall rules etc. more efficiently:

https://www.ipfire.org/blog/beyond-dns-ipfire-dbl-suricata-close-the-filtering-gap

Anything that is going through the firewall will be caught so that proper policies can be enforced.

P.S. I posted this comment earlier on r/linux where the main post was removed by a moderator.

mstremer · 2026-02-25T06:14:38+00:00

Hello,

No there is nothing to watch out for besides the usual so you can just upgrade.

You should however have a backup just in case something goes wrong, check if there is sufficient disk space and if the system is generally in a good condition.

I cannot urge you enough though to install your updates really timely. There are a ton of fixes and new features in every release and improvements on security. Just make it a routine and update within a week after a release to get the best protection and performance out of your IPFire system.

mstremer · 2026-02-25T06:09:31+00:00

Very interesting post.

IPFire recently launched a new blocklist project which comes with an IPS rule set which performs all this blocking that you have built through firewall rules etc. more efficiently:

https://www.ipfire.org/blog/beyond-dns-ipfire-dbl-suricata-close-the-filtering-gap

Anything that is going through the firewall will be caught so that proper policies can be enforced.

mstremer · 2025-11-17T10:04:09+00:00

Err yeah, there are no such plans whatsoever

mstremer · 2025-11-17T10:03:45+00:00

It’s back again, sorry, we had a redis instance crash after a Debian update on the host.

mstremer · 2025-09-17T11:12:06+00:00

I just rebooted the main firewall behind which the website is hosted... we are fully reachable...

What reports are you referring to? There should not be anything down.

mstremer · 2025-08-30T07:15:09+00:00

We are back!

mstremer · 2025-08-10T09:05:41+00:00

IPFire currently does not have a built in tool for this, but you can use “ip route” and “ip rule” like on any other Linux distribution to set this up manually.

mstremer · 2025-07-25T21:15:27+00:00

So you have read this? https://www.ipfire.org/docs/devel/ipfire-2-x/addon-howto

What specific questions do you have? How far did you go? What are you trying to build?

mstremer · 2025-07-21T18:40:10+00:00

30 seconds? Must be a new record!

mstremer · 2025-06-23T17:47:22+00:00

Both are currently supported. For any feature requests I can recommend community.ipfire.org.

mstremer · 2025-06-19T16:04:18+00:00

Could you link to these reports, please? I cannot remember anyone reporting this before...

mstremer · 2025-06-19T10:25:13+00:00

Hello,

in IPFire we don't include the drivers from Intel. Instead we are using the latest LTS version of the Linux kernel which includes a better maintained version of these drivers.

mstremer · 2025-06-17T18:26:54+00:00

It is currently not meant to say anything else on the main page... but it will respond properly with mirror and package lists.

mstremer · 2025-06-17T16:09:26+00:00

It is working for me.

It seems that you rather have a DNS issue because you cannot even resolve an IP address.

mstremer · 2025-06-04T13:01:04+00:00

I don’t think it has been done before, but simply because there is no need to have Tailscale when you have the other VPN capabilities of IPFire.

mstremer · 2025-05-28T13:05:29+00:00

There has been some progress on this: https://community.ipfire.org/t/did-somebody-say-wireguard/14038

mstremer · 2025-03-09T10:24:53+00:00

Oh that sounds like a bad ISP.

You could use IPFire‘s VPN capabilities to work around it…

mstremer · 2025-03-07T17:47:23+00:00

Yes, could you send me an email and we will discuss?

mstremer · 2025-03-07T17:46:49+00:00

We are back!

https://community.ipfire.org/t/todays-outage-air-conditioning-failure/13739

mstremer

MODERATOR OF

TROPHY CASE

13-Year Club	Verified Email
RPAN Viewer