NxFilter Tutorial
Introduction
NxFilter is a high performance DNS filtering software developed by Jahastech.

What is NxFilter?
NxFilter is a high performance network-wide filtering software designed to be used in an enterprise environment. It is not a simple AD blocker. NxFilter provides a rich set of features and many of them are the ones you only can find in commercial filtering appliances. It is a full featured DNS filter being able to handle several thousand users easily.

Features of NxFilter
These are some of NxFilter features.

  • Blocking websites by categories
  • Local caching DNS server to speed up your Internet connection
  • User authentication in your network
  • Multiple filtering policies according to user and group
  • IP or IP range based user authentication
  • Active Directory integration or single sign-on by Active Directory
  • 802.1X Wi-Fi user authentication for mobile devices
  • Active Directory integration over cloud
  • Relaying server to identify users behind a router
  • You can create user and group on NxFilter GUI
  • Data cap for your users to save your bandwidth
  • Screen time for your users
  • Granular reporting with usernames
  • Network level safe-search enforcing
  • Remote filtering client
  • Sub-admin accounts for limited admin roles
  • Multi-tenancy cloud based filtering service
  • Clustering for fail-safe and load balancing
  • Dynamic website classification
  • Custom categories for website classification
  • Exporting traffic data using Syslog
  • White label based commercial use
  • Authoritative DNS server
  • URL keyword filtering
  • Filtering roaming iOS/Android devices by DNS over HTTPS

And you will find more.

Is it free?
NxFilter is a freeware. You can run it in any place for any purpose. You can run it in companies, schools, hospitals, libraries, churches, home environments, etc. You also can use it for your own business purpose. For example, you can build a cloud filtering service for paid users or you can provide a paid service for NxFilter installation and management. You even can build your own product replacing NxFilter GUI and build your own package and sell it.

Our business
We don't sell software. Our business is selling domain categorization database licenses. However, we also offer free domain categorization database options, including Jahaslist for up to 30 users and Globlist. Both are included in the NxFilter package. You don't need to contact us to use these free options, and you can use them for your business as well."