NxFilter for Windows

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NxFilter 4.7.1.4 for Windows

NxFilter 4.7.1.4 latest update

NxFilter for Windows Features:

Excellent performace

NxFilter is a light-weight DNS filter. It doesn’t cause any latency issue in your network. We deliver an excellent filtering performance.

Next-level features

Active Directory integration, DNS over HTTPS, Screen time, Data cap, User level report, Remote user filtering, clustering and more.

Free for everybody

Commercial, nonprofit, schools, hospitals, companies and business environments, family protection, etc. Whatever the purpose, it’s free!

Crafted with technical excellence and expertise in DNS filtering.

A few of NxFilter’s core features

Faster and lighter

NxFilter only needs to filter DNS queries on your network which means virtually no latency and makes it extremely lightweight compared to using a webproxy server.

 

Local DNS cache

NxFilter caches DNS responses from its upstream DNS server. Users will be answered locally by NxFilter cache greatly reducing DNS traffic on your network.

Mobile user filtering

NxFilter provides several types of filtering agents for remote devices running on Windows and Android. You also can filter iOS devices using DNS over HTTPS.

High scalability

NxFilter is used by ISPs, DNS filter providers, schools, hospitals, and other businesses and has many years or real world performance experience.

 

User authenticaiton

You can protect your network with user authentication by NxFilter. NxFilter supports various kinds of user authentication methods including Active Directory integration.

 

URL keyword filtering

You may want to filter something you can’t filter with a DNS filter. You want to block some search keywords in Google and other search engines. It is possible with NxFilter.

Very stable

NxFilter is very stable and does not require frequent restarts. Many users run NxFilter for months without restarting and typically only restart when applying updates.

 

Multiple policies

NxFilter provides multiple filtering policies for users and groups. Policies are easily created in the NxFilter GUI and can be applied to individual users and/or groups.

 

Community proven

Team are all tired of those sales tactics. We present you the real world usage reports by our test user group. Decide which is the best for you based on real world data.

NxFilter for Windows Info:

Why NxFilter?

You may want to know why you need NxFilter and where you can use it. We will talk about the advantages of running NxFilter in your network briefly.

Faster and lighter

When you implement network level filtering, it requires an extra process for your network. Your network traffic needs to go through somewhere in your network. It can be a bottle neck in your network and cause a latency problem. This is especially true when you use webproxy way of filtering as it needs to look into all the HTTP/HTTPS traffic in your network. Your users can download tons of documents and files through HTTP/HTTPS protocol. However, NxFilter uses lightweight DNS protocol for filtering. It only needs to deal with DNS queries in your network. There will be no latency problem with NxFilter.

Central DNS cache

NxFilter caches DNS responses from its upstream DNS server. Once it cached, it will be resolved in your local network. For example, when you use a public DNS server, your users may send sevral thousand DNS queries over the internet to resolve 'google.com' a day. This is because each of your users keeps their own cache and they send the same query again when their cache expires.

However, when you run NxFilter in your local network, it keeps its own cache and it works as a centralized DNS cache. Your users will be answered by NxFilter cache. So the DNS traffic between your local network and a public DNS server will be reduced greatly. NxFilter will save you a lot of bandwidth and improve your network performance.

High scalability

We designed NxFilter to be a high performance filtering software. We see many sites running NxFilter for filtering several thousand users. We can show you how it performs by the usage reports from our test group users. These are the actual usage reports from real users.

- Usage reports from NxFilter test user group

NxFilter has been used by ISPs, DNS filtering business companies, schools and other business users for many years. Its performace has been proven in real world.

Transparent filtering

You want to filter the user traffic in your network while not wanting to let them know what you are doing. You can set your NxFilter as the DNS server for your network using DHCP and block outgoing UDP/53 on your router or firewall. By doing so, NxFilter becomes the only DNS server for your network and you get your filtering. Your users will not notice any difference.

Authentication support

You want to protect your network with a login procedure and differentiate users with userames and IP addresses on your report view. NxFilter offers IP and password based authentication by itself. In fact, NxFilter was the first DNS server supporting user authentication and we don't see any other DNS server or filter supporting as many ways of authentication as NxFilter does yet.

Active Directory integration

You may want to import users and groups from Active Directory and you want to apply different policies based on those imported users and groups. That's called Active Directory integration and we support this feature from the first version of NxFilter. Most software provide this kind of feature as a paid option but it is free for NxFilter.

Single sign-on

Your users don't want to go through any other login process after they logged into their PCs. But you still want to view NxFilter logging and report with associated usernames. What you need is a single sign-on implementation with NxFilter. Once a user logged into his PC, then he will appear in NxFilter logging and report with his PC login username.

We provide several ways of single sign-on with NxFilter. Some of them work with Active Directory but some of them can be implemeted without Active Directory. We also support single sign-on by 802.1X Wi-Fi authentication. And all these are free.

Multiple policies

You may want to have multiple filtering policies for your users. If it's in a school environment, you want to have one policy for staffs and a stricter policy for your students. You can create such filtering policies on NxFilter GUI and apply those policies based on users and groups.

Remote filtering

We provide remote filtering agents for Windows and Chromebook. And we aslo provide a way of filtering roaming macOS, iOS, Android devices by DNS over HTTPS. You can filter your users while they are away from your office.

NxFilter for Windows Information:

System requirements

- Windows, Linux and other operating systems having Java 8 or later installed

- 1GB of RAM

- 4GB of free disk space

- UDP/53, TCP/80, TCP/443  ports

As of v4.6.0.8 of NxFilter, we included an embedded JRE into its Windows packages. When you install it using Windows installer, you don't need to install Java or JRE.

How much RAM?

It depends on the number of users you have. At default, NxFilter uses up to 1GB of system memory. It is enough for up to 500 users we guess. But if you have only 100 users, you may run it with 256MB of RAM. If you have more than 1,000 users then you need to increase it. To allocate more memory to NxFilter, read Performance Tuning

Which version of Java?

Oracle updates Java frequently these days. As a result, there are several active versions out there. It confuses people. You can use any version if it's Java 8 or later but if you don't want to get bothered with its frequent updates, you can stay with Java 8.

Install NxFilter on Windows

Team provide a Windows installer. And you also can install it mannually using ZIP package.

Using Windows installer

Download and run nxfilter-4.7.1.4.exe from our download page and you will see the following window.

After several steps on the installer, it will try to create a Windows service for NxFilter. If you see the following message, you have NxFilter successfully installed.

When you install NxFilter first time, it needs to create Jahaslist database and populate it. It may take up to a minute. Before it finish its job, you may not be able to access its admin GUI. You shouldn't stop it before it finish the job.

Using ZIP package

You can install NxFilter on Windows using ZIP package.

Download nxfilter-4.7.1.4.zip

Extract the zip file into c:/nxfilter

Go to c:/nxfilter/bin and run instsvc.bat to install it as a service

Run NxFilter service by 'net start NxFilter' command

Get NxFilter for Windows