Changed up on how I am announcing my subnets today. So, I sued to have my pfsense firewall doing the announcement but I decided to change It up. Now it’s a ubuntu VM with FRR doing the range announcements and other boxes or VM’s will peer to this VM and […]
This is an easy one. Don’t host uptime monitoring on your own infrastructure 😂 I use Uptime Kuma to monitor my services to make sure they are on the up and up. I also get this for free, by using an Oracle Cloud Always Free x86 instance, which is Ubuntu […]
So, you need both authoritative and recursive DNS for your infrastructure. For this particular occasion, I will be using Pi-Hole. I’ve considered using PowerDNS as well for my recursive DNS but the ad-blocking for pi-hole is nice for when I tunnel IP’s around without the ads 😉 Again, fairly simple […]
So, having a /24 and having every IP address being routable on the internet has its advantages. Namely – every IP can have its own set of open ports without conflict. Having said that, instead of running a central reverse proxy for SSL termination, I can run a caddy web […]
So, after setting up BGP peering and establishing connectivity to the outside world with my prefixes, my other priority is to setup a pair of authoritative DNS servers. This way I can use my own nameserver to set PTR records and also update my ARIN records with my authoritative DNS […]
My dedicated server was provisioned with a hypervisor at my request. So, the first thing I setup after I got my dedicated server (dedi, from here on out) was to setup networking on it and run a quick pfSense firewall, then install FRR module and start a BGP peering session […]
Hurricane electric fixed their peering at the IX and all IPv6 connectivity is back since like 3 hours ago. Great new!
IPv6 connectivity seems to be down according to remote monitoring. It would appear there might be some peering issue with Hurricane Electric at the local IX the data center is connected to? Going to open a ticket and see what’s up
Hello, Milehighwalrus here! This is a blog regarding the progress of my personal slice of the internet. This includes the projects I’m working on, have worked on in the past, or will be working on in the future. I will also occasionally post regard on my process of obtaining these […]
Hello World! This is my first post on the blog after starting it. Hopefully, many days of content to come!