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Hi I am using this script to check if a vm is running or not before doing an action

I'm scratching my head. My goal is to get an input of json und put it out into an influxdb. Since' I'm gathering data from a pfSense my tools are limited. Therefor I'm using Python 3.8.

Developing on an Debian Machine first I wrote this code:

I am trying to follow the official documentation on how to install a single node OKD 4.9 cluster from these links:

• https://docs.okd.io/4.9/installing/installing_sno/install-sno-preparing-to-install-sno.html
• https://docs.okd.io/4.9/installing/installing_sno/install-sno-installing-sno.html

Here is my network topology:

Here is the pfsense DHCP configuration that makes all the hosts have static IP addresses:

Here is the pfsence DNS configuration:

Here is my install-config.yaml:

I have created a vnet on azure. The vnet contains VM, bastion host, and pfsense firewall. I'm connecting to VM using bastion host, and all the traffic is getting filtered using pfsense.

After connecting to VM, when I see the state table of pfsense, I notice that the vm has sent requests to public IPs of Microsoft. The details of the IPs are as follows

Can anyone please help me to understand what are these IPs and why VM is sending a request to these IPs

context:
i'm using robot framework + msedgedriver for e2e testing, my environment is docker in linux vm. So i can't run msedgedriver windows container in this vm. I decided to run ms edge driver on remote windows vm.

Problem:
in my windows server 2016 i execute the following cmd : msedgedriver.exe --whitelisted-ips="".
I configured my pfsense firewall to redirect trafic to this host, when i try to connect to msedgedriver i get the following error:

Starting MSEdgeDriver 96.0.1033.0 (87d233ad01b7c17f5f53b7dac130e44d5d4b67d6) on port 9515 All remote connections are allowed. Use an allowlist instead! Please see https://chromedriver.chromium.org/security-considerations for suggestions on keeping MSEdgeDriver safe. MSEdgeDriver was started successfully. [1633362838.713][SEVERE]: Rejecting request with host: ip_address:9515 address: ip_address

and I get the following error in the client:

Host header or origin header is specified and is not whitelisted or localhost.

P.S: I've added my IP address to the whitelisted Ips using --whitelisted-ips='' argument also i tried allowed-origins=* but no luck.
Any idea about it?

I would like to know if it is a good idea to use 16384 bit key length for openvpn CA on pfsense and the main differences between this a 8192bit and a 4096bit. Which is the best of these?

I did a new installation of PFSense, with version 2.5, where I installed FreeRadius 3 that works together with MySQL for Captive Portal. Since version 2.4, the MySQL radacct table is empty. I can see the logs in /var/log/radacct/{IP}, but what I need is for them to be registered in the MySQL table. I've done a lot of research and I couldn't find a solution. I request your help and thank you very much in advance.

Ever since I upgraded to pfSense 2.5.0, my NordVPN interface does not work anymore. Traffic does not get routes to the NordVPN gateway, as pfSense reports it as "down" with 100% package loss. When checking "Status -> OpenVPN" the connection is reported as UP, but the gateway is DOWN. I don't understand how this is possible, but the log provides some clues, although I don't understand what goes wrong when reading the log.

OpenVPN Log (private IPs removed):

I'm using the Ansible uri module to trigger the pfSense API. Now I want to create firewall rules in a task (code is truncated).