Posts Tagged ‘DNS’
January 2021
Pupdate He’s getting more used to the rhythms of life with us. There’s obviously a distinctive sound to my lock keyboard keystroke, as he’s up and stretching before I’ve had a chance to change my glasses. Speaker fix I was watching The Midnight Sky[1]. It has a bunch of scenes in a spaceship, with very […]
Filed under: monthly_update, Raspberry Pi | 1 Comment
Tags: ARM, Bind, Brewdog, Brix, dachshund, DNS, dry January, Elvis AF, ESXi, eTrade, Mission, MOT, OpenWRT, puppy, Raspberry Pi, reMarkable, speaker, Stream Deck, Transferwise, VMware, woofer, Zoom
Why? Everything you access on the Internet starts with a Domain Name System (DNS) query to turn a name like google.com into an IP address like 216.58.218.14. Typically the DNS server that provides that answer is run by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) but you might also use alternative DNS servers like Google (8.8.8.8). Either way […]
Filed under: howto, networking, Raspberry Pi | 40 Comments
Tags: 1.1.1.1, CloudFlare, DNS, privacy, Raspberry Pi, tls, Unbound
Using 1.1.1.1
TL;DR One of the best features of Cloudflare’s new 1.1.1.1 DNS service is the privacy provided by DNS over TLS, but some setup is required to make use of it. I put Unbound onto the OpenWRT routers I use as DNS servers for my home network so that I could use it. Background Yesterday Cloudflare […]
Filed under: howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: 1.1.1.1, Bind, CloudFlare, DNS, OpenWRT, privacy, Unbound
TL;DR I need local DNS for various home lab things, but the Windows VMs I’ve been using can be slow and unreliable after a power outage (which happens too frequently). Moving to BIND turned out to be much easier than I feared, and I chose OpenWRT devices to run it on as I wanted reliable […]
Filed under: networking | Leave a Comment
Tags: AD, Bind, DNS, forwarder, OpenWRT, zone
Late last year AWS launched Private DNS within Amazon VPC as part of their Route 53 service. This allows customers to create DNS entries that are only visible within a VPC (or group of VPCs). It’s also possible to have ‘split horizon’ DNS where servers inside a VPC get different answers to the same queries versus users […]
Filed under: CohesiveFT, howto, networking | 2 Comments
Tags: aws, Bind, DNS, Route 53, Unbound, VPC
Recovering my Azure VM
A few weeks back I wrote a howto that utilised the 90 day free trial on Azure to build OpenELEC for the Raspberry Pi. Days later my account was disabled as I’d exhausted the (rather low) limit for I/O within the trial. Since I’d only used 5-6p of extra stuff I went through the process […]
Filed under: cloud, howto | Leave a Comment
Tags: Azure, disk, DNS, Microsoft, MS, name, reattach, recover, recovery, VM
email like it’s 1995
The old joke There used to be a joke that people who didn’t ‘get it’ would send an email and then call the recipient up to check if it had been received. Now the joke’s on us Now, I am that joke. I think we all are. Email has reached a point where it’s just […]
Filed under: could_do_better, grumble, howto, software | 7 Comments
Tags: bacn, batch, blackberry, business edition, DNS, email, fail, false positive, GABE, GAPE, gapps, google, Google Apps, IP Lock, Postini, premier edition, quarantine, spam, SPF, support
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