Tag Archives: DNS

Pi-Hole with Unbound

Posted on 21 April 2020 by matthannan

Going right to the top on DNS lookups. I am liking Cloudflare’s offerings, but I want to try this solution out for a couple of days at least.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/unbound/

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Let’s Encrypt, again, Part 3

Posted on 20 November 2019 by matthannan

Another 3 months has past and I needed to renew my certs. The previous method for taking care of NycNyne is still a relatively simple one liner, but matthannan.net continues to be a nightmare. Well, a hassle, anyway.

I went with the links in the Part 2 of this series and was mightily struggling with the first one.… Read the rest

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Use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS with Raspberry Pi

Posted on 19 October 2019 by matthannan

This guy is like my spirit animal.

Make Raspberry Pi automatically update a domain after your IP changes. Gain access to your home server from anywhere with Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS.

Source: Use Cloudflare as Dynamic DNS with Raspberry Pi – Let’s WP

I set this up in just a few minutes.… Read the rest

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DNS Record Types Explained – Pressable – More Than Hosting

Posted on 18 August 2018 by matthannan

This article is part 3 in a series dedicated to the DNS Management, specifically DNS Record Types Explained. We will list the commonly used record types.

Source: DNS Record Types Explained – Pressable – More Than Hosting

I fired up a web server on a Pi tonight.… Read the rest

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lame server responding…

Posted on 1 March 2010 by matthannan

This is a part of an log message that you will see a ton if you ever run your own DNS server.

Feb 28 23:33:56 wilbur named[14270]: lame server resolving 'online.wsj.com' (in 'wsj.com'?): 63.240.101.1#53
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A Good Night of Geeking!!!

Posted on 9 February 2010 by matthannan

For some reason tonight, I decided to not play around with beer and mead too much. They are doing their thing quite happily. Sometimes after a rough day in the saltmines, I’ll come home and drink a beer or three. Sometimes I will sit down to geek out.… Read the rest

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