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Sure! Let me know how it goes. If you need to do something more complex for internal DNS records for more than just A records, then look at the unbound.conf man page for stub zones. If you need something even more flexible than stub zones, you can use Unbound as a full authoritative DNS server with auth-zones. As far as I know auth-zones can even do zone transfers AXFR style which is cool!

I am hoping something got misinterpreted here because this could spell some bad news.

Cinnamon, xfce, MATE, Gnome 4 .... I mean you've got lots of choice and Linux keeps getting better all of the time. Fucking supporting Windows 10 and 11 is a goddamned nightmare. I thank baphomet for being able to go home to my own lab and work on BSD and Linux systems. Open source is my sanity.

At the end of this month, I will be at 2.5 months completely on Linux. The only thing stopping me was simply not knowing that Steam and Proton existed for Linux. I can play the games that matter to me on Linux. Good riddance to Windows!

You've got the right community IMHO. This is something that I've never tackled but I could imagine that it would work. Just make certain you have solid backups just in case the worst should happen.

So I take it that you're not receiving notifications through your browser either, I take it?

Virtual Desktops haven't really been a thing that I've really needed in my work flow. Maybe one day I will give using one a shot. I actually prefer my current setup with dual 27" monitors.

Here is a sample configuration that should work for you:

server:
        interface: 127.0.0.1
        interface: 192.168.1.1
        do-udp: yes
        do-tcp: yes
        do-not-query-localhost: no
        verbosity: 1
        log-queries: yes

        access-control: 0.0.0.0/0 refuse
        access-control-view: 127.0.0.0/8 example
        access-control-view: 192.168.1.0/24 example

        hide-identity: yes
        hide-version: yes
        tcp-upstream: yes

remote-control:
        control-enable: yes
        control-interface: /var/run/unbound.sock

view:
        name: "example"
        local-zone: "example.com." inform
        local-data: "example.com. IN A 192.168.1.2"
        local-data: "www IN CNAME example.com."
        local-data: "another.example.com. IN A 192.168.1.3"

forward-zone:
        name: "."
        forward-addr: 8.8.8.8
        forward-addr: 8.8.4.4

What makes the split-brain DNS work is if the request for resolution comes from the localhost or from inside your network, it will first go to the view section to see if there is any pertinent local data. So if you do a query from your home network, on say, example.com, it will return your internal IP address which in this case is 192.168.1.2

I think people are generally missing the point that this was intended to be humorous. I know I got a chuckle out of it.

Arch Linux is my go-to distro because I can literally install it in half the time that it takes a lot of others. I also like that it is very lightweight.

Instead of pfSense, I would really recommend OPNsense, originally a fork but now standing on its own. I like the fact that OPNsense tracks closer to the current FreeBSD release than pfSense.

I did this myself for all of 150 dollars. I bought an OptiPlex 7050 off of Amazon and added a dual intel network card. From there, I installed OPNsense. I have a DMZ, WAN, and LAN interface.