I recently updated my UDM Pro UnifiOS verison 4.3.6, and Network version 9.3.43.

Coming from the very old 1.x UnifiOS version, a lot of things were different, but I quickly noticed that Unifi now has a builtin Wireguard VPN server configuration option.

I had written about adding and configuring Wireguard VPN a few …

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Configuring a Dynamic Domain Name Service (DDNS) on Ubiquiti's UniFi network manager is easy, if you use on of the configured providers that show up in the drop-down service.

I had recently upgraded to UnifiOS version 4.3.6, and finally Cloudflare exists as a selectable entry.

If you are running UDM version under …

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SSH into a UDM Pro

After enabling SSH access into a UDM Pro, and adding a public SSH key via the web GUI, enabling password-less SSH is as easy as using copying the public key into the ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file.

Problems after reboot and/or upgrade

Everything works great, until you reboot or upgrade, in which case, …

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These instructions/screenshots were from an UDM Pro running:

UniFi OS UDM Pro 1.11.0 UniFi Network Application 7.0.23

Why

From the FBI field office in Portland:

Your fridge and your laptop should not be on the same network.¹

If those cheap "smart" lightbulbs you bought off Amazon get compromised because of …

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I have a Pi-hole Docker container running on my NAS, but DNS functionality is too important to have a single point of failure.

If something were to happen to my NAS, my home network would have no DNS resolution, which brings the network to it's knees.

I had been using a Raspberry Pi as my second DNS server, running …

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I've been using Wireguard for a few months now, and the performance has been great, with zero stability issues.

I started by using a virtual machine for the Wireguard server, and once I got the configuration ironed out, then moved it to a Docker instance.

I later discovered that my Ubiquiti Ultimate Dream Machine Pro …

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