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Liking the plugin a lot so far, keep up the great work!
Magic Hostnames are spectacular and your addon was the reason for me to finally switch to Kea DHCP.

Thanks a lot, the latest update works great with OPNsense 26.7.
Appreciate your work!

Something seems broken with the latest update, blocky cannot be installed anymore.
I removed my blocky 0.28 version, updated via pkg update and tried installing 0.33 version.
After installing via "pkg install os-blocky-guru" or via "System -> Firmware -> Plugins -> os-blocky-guru" it doesn't get installed.
No error message or hint what might be wrong, could you check if it is the same on your system?

Hi gspannu, thanks for creating the repo but Blocky is outdated by many versions now.
What do you think about an Autobuilder script that creates a FreeBSD package for Blocky automatically when an update is released by the official project?

Thanks so much!
Today a bugfix v0.28.1 version was released, sorry for pinging too early!

Updated...

I'm still only receiving v0.28.0 via OPNsense, no update to be found.
Thanks so much for keeping the packages updated.

[v0.28 was released earlier today !]

Hi @gspannu
still loving and using Blocky on OPNsense, do you plan to further update it?
Version 0.28 was recently released. Thanks and best regards!

Oh!

I had updated the plugin for Blocky v0.27 just yesterday; it seems v0.28 was released earlier today !.

Will update in next day or so.
Thanks for the heads up 🙏🏼

Updated to v0.28 now....

Thanks so much!
Today a bugfix v0.28.1 version was released, sorry for pinging too early!

Hi @gspannu
still loving and using Blocky on OPNsense, do you plan to further update it?
Version 0.28 was recently released. Thanks and best regards!

Hi gspannu, any plans to update Blocky to the latest version?
Thanks so much for providing the packages, OPNsense and Blocky are a perfect match!

Thanks! It's working fine again

Hello, any reason why the Github page was removed?
https://github.com/gspannu/OPN-Plugins

Recognized it when my OPNsense told me the repo is unavailable when updating my packages.

Just installed the Blocky package, thanks so much for providing an OPNsense version.
It works great and was out of the box compatible with my existing config.yml from my Blocky docker instance.
That's one thing why Blocky is great, the config.yml is easily deployable and requires minimal to no changes between platforms with setting it up in mintues.

Would be great if your plugin could offer more functionalities over the OPNsense WebUI in future, for example editing the config.yml or showing the logs.

Now I have two blocky instances running on different hardware.
My DNS maintenance windows won't affect my family anymore. :)

[The code is here on]

I'd like to look at the source code of the plugin itself, but I can only see the compiled package in that repository. Would just interest me without having to install the package first.

Essentially I'm interested in this plugin since it uses a go binary and its available in the freebsd ports.
https://cgit.freebsd.org/ports/tree/dns/blocky

The code is here on Github
It is a very simple plugin, identical to AdGuard Home plugin and built on the same code.

I would absolutely love it, if you would take this on and build a full fledged plugin as you did with os-caddy.
Really appreciate your work there... 🙏🏻

Was the source code removed?

Opening the link results in error 404:
Github

It seems like that indeed, since only a few specific clients are behaving like this.
Doesn't seem to be a problem at all, since I discovered no issues so far on my clients.

Hello,

my OPNsense is configured as a DNS upstream server and the domain "home.arpa" was added in General System Settings.

I have an issue where the domain is applied external requests.
When DNS requests are answered by Unbound, the "home.arpa" domain is added as a suffix.

Example:
cloud-jobs.linkplay.com
is changed to
cloud-jobs.linkplay.com.home.arpa

That happens not with all, but with many domains and results in a SERVFAIL error.
Unbound is set in transparent mode, to resolve local requests (for DHCP static leases) and external requests

Could someone tell me how this can be fixed?

I configured a cronjob to run firmware updates every day at 4 AM.
It seems that minor updates are installed but major updates are only triggered when searching manually for updates. Not sure if my cronjob is correctly set. So far no stability issues with this setting.

My cronjob:

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0 4 * * * Automatic firmware update

There also seem to be more options regarding automatic firmware updates:

• Custom Firmware Update Check
• Custom Firmware Update Install
• Firmware Update Check

Not sure if multiple options need to be combined, thus multiple cronjobs are required.
Do we have a best practice how to set automatic updates per cronjob?