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I was playing around with my bound minimum and maximum ttl when I noticed at some point I wasn't seeing any cache hits even though running dig proved that i am caching I flushed cache and restarted unbound and opnsense but don't see any cached hits accumulating.

I wouldn't know. Im quite a noob when it comes to freebsd. It installs super easy on Ubuntu so I don't know why it's so difficult on freebsd.

Thanks for trying Franco. Do you have any suggestions aside from not installing it. Do you think building it from HardenedBSD - https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedbsd-ports/tree/master/net-mgmt/smokeping would be an option or would the packages and dependencies from that repository screw up my opnsense installation and cause issues when updating opnsense firmware. Also should the maintainer of https://github.com/opnsense/ports/tree/master/net-mgmt/smokeping be notified of the problem with the ports tree so they can possibly get it working.

Am I doing something wrong with the install or the build. Do I have to donload and build some of the packages manually? Here is a record of my console during the install

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JUA_x8jeGxl6YFJ1aabYQx-sGPzPqkZ5/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=115041733466386284875&rtpof=true&sd=true

I tried to build it but its not building properly and doesn't seem to work with the current rrds of opnsense.  When I build it do I use make, gmake, or bmake?
When it builds it doesn't install the Perl modules and can't find smokeping.Pm. Has anyone successfully deployed smokeping this way?

Thanks Franco. I tried installing it  and there was a lot of errors in building.

Hi: Can I install Smokeping directly on Opnsense. I have seen this question in some old forum articles and have seen online one person that had it working on older Opnsese. Since the package for smokeping exists for both FreeBSD - https://www.freshports.org/net-mgmt/smokeping/ and HardenedBSD - https://github.com/HardenedBSD/hardenedbsd-ports/tree/master/net-mgmt/smokeping, I was wondering if there is an easy way to deploy it on OPNsense. I already tried and had issues with dependancies and conflicts with sunnyvally repositories. Has anyone got it to work on newer versions of Opnsense.

Thanks for the replies. I changed my monitor ip to google and cloudflare  which both still had somewhat high delay and still some packet loss to google. I switched to quad9 and my delay has dropped from an average of 33ms with occasional  spikes to 66ms and still some packet loss wsith 8.8.8.8 down to 22ms with occasional spikes to 32ms with no packet loss on quad9. So it looks like its monitoring more accurately now.

Hello: I recently started monitoring my gateway and noticed that I am getting intervals of packet loss. I am running opnsense 25.7.7_4 with adguard home and unbound as my recursive resolver. I am also using zenarmor. I was just wondering if anybody can explain what I am seeing here on the health/quality graph and what could be causing it. As I have never monitored this before I am not sure if this is normal behavior. See attached graph.

After playing around for a while I realized I wrote the scrip file wrong. After correcting that the Monit alert is working fine.
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Hello: I am trying to get an email alert when my Opnsense goes on UPS. I followed this tutorial (https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=23071.msg109726#msg109726) and when I check the status in monit it always shows status failed, but my Apcupsd status shows online. I also get the email that says failed but
the status never says Ok. Does anyone have another method that works or is it not working because I"m doing something wrong.

Hello: I replaced one of my computers on the network with a new one. It has the same computer name and user name as the old one. In ISC DHCPv4 I replaced the MAC address of that client with the MAC address of the new nic. The new PC got assigned the IP address expected. Then I noticed some problems with networking and rdp. When I ran a nslookup of the host name it shows the network static assigned network address and the address of another pc on my network. I am using unbound as a recursive server with adguard home. I cannot seem to resolve this problem. Does anyone have any idea what could be causing this problem and how to resolve it.
Thanks

Hello I was checking my unbound log files and under warning I keep getting error: read (in tcp initial): Connection reset by peer for 199.180.180.63 port 53. This IP address resolves to r.arin.net. Can anybody explain what might be causing this.

Hello I am trying to under stand my statistics for caching in unbound. I am running adguard home with unbound as the recursive resolver. I have caching off in adguard. I am finding that only about 50% of my queries get cached results. I tried opening a list of urls several times assuming that once the are resolved by unbound they would be cached and my cache hits stats would increase to a higher percentage as the exact same sites are being requested over and over.
Am I correct in assuming that the number of cache hits should be significantly higher when repeatedly opening the same urls and can anyone explain this behavior.

Does anybody know if the opnsense redis plugin can be used as a cachedb for unbound. When I run unbound -V --enable-cachedb is missing. This is my output.

root@Free:~ # unbound -V
Version 1.23.1

Configure line: --with-libexpat=/usr/local --with-libnghttp2 --with-ssl=/usr/local --enable-dnscrypt --disable-dnstap --with-dynlibmodule --enable-ecdsa --enable-event-api --enable-gost --with-libevent --with-pythonmodule=yes --with-pyunbound=yes ac_cv_path_SWIG=/usr/local/bin/swig LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib --disable-subnet --disable-tfo-client --disable-tfo-server --with-pthreads --prefix=/usr/local --localstatedir=/var --mandir=/usr/local/share/man --infodir=/usr/local/share/info/ --build=amd64-portbld-freebsd14.3
Linked libs: libevent 2.1.12-stable (it uses kqueue), OpenSSL 3.0.17 1 Jul 2025
Linked modules: dns64 python dynlib respip validator iterator
DNSCrypt feature available