Comment by efreak
6 days ago
I tried out portmaster recently. Coming from rethinkdns on Android, I was far from impressed; it looks featured, but it's much harder to use. Opensnitch looks better but doesn't have the nice features to drill down connections (get from app requesting a domain being resolved to an IP and connecting on a port, and filter this at any level including globally; if the request was already filtered, you can see why and get to that filter to either remove it or add an exception)
rethinkdns dev here
> I tried out portmaster recently. Coming from rethinkdns on Android, I was far from impressed; it looks featured, but it's much harder to use. Opensnitch looks better but doesn't have the nice features
If 'far from impressed ... much harder to use' is about Rethink DNS + Firewall... Over the years, we've got numerous complaints about the UI over emails and on GitHub Issues, so we're acutely aware of the fact. In our defense, we have had no help from a designer, and couldn't come up with a good UX even if our life depended on it. We'll keep trying though.