Microsoft Defender Firewall is a decent enough firewall. Its major problem isn't a lack of capability, it is a mixture of the default settings and the interface. Outbound filtering is effectively ...

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The IPFire project shipped Core Update 201 for its 2.29 release line, bringing DNS-layer domain blocking into the open-source firewall distribution. The update replaces two components that many IPFire ...

Version 26.1, code-named Witty Woodpecker, introduces revisions to the firewall user experience and its automation interfaces. The live firewall log function was updated to provide administrators with ...

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