There are valid reasons for wanting to override DNS on your network. Maybe you’re in a corporate environment and you want to prevent people from using outside DNS which would render AD useless. Maybe you’re in a school and you want to make sure students are filtered appropriately. Or maybe at home, you just want […]

This is something I never thought I’d actually need until the other weekend I went out of town for a wedding. Everything was going smoothly with my remote access until 7:41 AM on Saturday and suddenly I couldn’t reach anything. I try to pull up my doorbell camera – no connection. I try to reach

This post is inspired by a popular tech YouTuber teaching what is essentially a reverse proxy. While there is a time and a place for such technologies, your home network is not one of them. He starts off by saying you have a lot of stuff at home and you might want to give access

So in a first for me, I correctly predicted macOS Monterey. Called it. https://t.co/CjFIoHqIlT — TechTrav (@TechTrav) June 7, 2021 After getting the developer beta installed on my test Mac, I started poking around. iCloud+ Since I pay for iCloud storage, I got iCloud+. Some of these features are really awesome! The major features here

This is going to seem like old news… “Oh you’re reviewing a MacBook Pro with a M1?” Well, not really. I’m sharing my experience with using a MacBook Pro M1 as a power user and real world performance. I’m not going to sit here and regurgitate Cinebench scores. These scores mean nothing. They’re just benchmarks

I wanted to have a “road warrior” VPN that would give me access to my entire network. I used to have an OpenVPN server running on a pfSense virtual firewall at my colo. I recently switched that over to OPNSense so I no longer had a working VPN solution. This was also over complicated. Here’s

A lot of times I see discussions about whether or not homelabbers should use rackmount servers or tower servers. I’m going to share my reasons for preferring rackmount gear. Scaling vertically No, I don’t mean scaling out a web application or anything like that. I mean physical space. You can pack a lot of power

Well dear homelabber, you’re on a budget. You have some old Cisco 2960s you bought off ebay. You also found some cheap fiber transceivers that are not Cisco name brand. Perhaps you have some that you bought from Ubiquiti and they work fine. You plug them into your Cisco switch and… there’s no link! You

So you took my previous advice and decided to ditch Ubiquiti and go (back) to Cisco like me. Good for you. If you’ve never touched Cisco gear before, let me make this perfectly clear: it is a different world. You can royally screw up your network. You will get really annoyed with some things. It

In my previous post, I said that I was going back to Cisco because of Ubiquiti’s poor handling of their security breach. That’s not the only reason why I’m going back. Houston, we have ads This has received mixed opinions, but if you’re telling me about something, regardless of whether it’s your own product or