(assuming I can even get this to work) would it be ok to run Omada controller, Pi-Hole and cloudflare ddns on my FWG?

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Christopher Wheeler

• April 28, 2022 23:54

I'm not even sure I'm smart enough to figure this out but assuming I am, would it be ok to run those all on the FWG? Also, how do you guys learn this stuff? I feel like I'm reasonably smart but this stuff is not super simple for me to figure out. It really seems like when I try projects like this I read up a bunch of stuff and find some tutorials and try to go step-by-step. Usually what I find is that something somewhere got updated and whatever I just tried to follow is out of date or something. Either that or I end up coming across somebody posting about the exact same issue I'm having but nobody ever responds so I don't know how it got resolved.

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  Michael Bierman

  • April 29, 2022 01:50

  Cloudflare DDNS is a small docker container and would be fine but there is already a built in DDNS in Firewalla. Pi-Hole is more resource intensive, but doable. I have no experience with Omada directly, but if it is like unifi, it is somewhat heavy. I run my unifi controller on my NAS. The safest approach is to set these up on a rpi or NAS, but  the great thing about docker is you can try it on FWG and if it is too heavy moving docker to another device is easy to do. 

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  Christopher Wheeler

  • April 29, 2022 04:07

  Thanks for the reply.

  I was just looking at the cloudflare ddns because the tutorial I was following to try and set this up was using some thing to update OpenDNS which in turn was updating Cloudflare... Or something like that.

  I'm not a huge fan of trying to duplicate work. If I could figure out how to use the built in ddns I would in a heartbeat.

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  Michael Bierman

  • April 29, 2022 22:52

  No worries, Christopher. One way is to use the Firewalla DDNS to update a CNAME or some domain hosts let you set an A record to Firewalla's DDNS such as Google Domains. So it is as simple as copy/paste your Firewalla DDNS to your DNS provider. 
  
  To clarify, I don't think Unifi controller is at all undoable on FWG. I even wrote an installer to do it. https://github.com/mbierman/unifi-installer. I also have one for homebridge https://github.com/mbierman/homebridge-installer 
  
  Just be aware of how you use Firewalla's resources and if you install docker containers prune them appropriately. 

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