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Load Balancing DNS with Zevenet

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Load balancing DNS with Zevenet. After getting the server setup with its initial network configuration. First thing would be to setup a virtual NIC for the DNS traffic. Pretty straight forward, pick the parent interface, give it a name, and…

Two UPSs One Nut Server

It took a little searching to figure out how to setup two UPSs on one Nut server. The trick is leaving the port set to auto and using the serial number to differentiate between the two UPSs. Running lsusb -v…

Installing DNSCrypt on Ubuntu with PiHole and NextDNS

DNSCrypt Ubuntu PiHole NextDNS

DNSCrypt is a network protocol that authenticates and encrypts Domain Name System (DNS) traffic between the user’s computer and recursive name servers. It was originally designed by Frank Denis and Yecheng Fu. Although multiple client and server implementations exist, the…

USB Boot with Home Assistant

If you have been running Home Assistant for awhile on a SD card, you have probably had one fail on you by now. You can do things like exclude entities from the recorder and use a database like MySQL on…

Zabbix MySQL Monitoring

If you found this page, you were probably like me and spent a day trying to get this to work..Hopfully this should get you there. First you will need the new template_db_mysql_agent template from Zabbix. Download the xml and import…

ZFS over iSCSI for Proxmox and FreeNAS

Updated: still using GrandWazoo’s FreeNAS ZFS over iSCSI plugin on TrueNAS 12.0-U4.1 and Proxmox 6.4-13. I’m pretty sure I read in the issues section on Github that it works with Proxmox 7, maybe someday soon I’ll give it a try.…

VPN Between OPNsense and Sonicwall

The scenario is two networks on the OPNsense side, one on the Sonicwall’s. Changing the defaults for a little bit of security. Both sides also have static IPs but this setup also worked when the OPNsense’s was dynamic. Using IKEv2…

Home Assistant Alarm Clock

It took me a bit to get an alarm clock going in Home Assistant. I also wanted to try waking up to the light gradually turning on instead of sound. The first thing you will need two input booleans in…

Google Assistant to Telegram Group

Found this useful if you use Telegram. Create an IFTTT applet to text a Telegram group whenever you say Ok, Google tell group blah blah blah. I have created the IFTTT Applet and left it open to configure. I have…

Home Assistant Lovelace Theme

If you haven’t done so already create a www folder and a themes.yaml in config. In the configuration.yaml change the frontend to: In the themes.yaml file we just add the following: download this wallpaper and place it in the www…

PowerCLI vCPU Report

The bosses like reports with headers, this should get you there. Get-View -ViewType VirtualMachine -Filter @{“Runtime.PowerState” =”poweredOn”} | Where { $_.Guest.GuestFullname} | Sort Name | Select-Object Name, @{N=”vCPU”; E={$_.Config.Hardware.NumCpu}}, @{N=”Sockets”; E={[string]([int]($_.Config.Hardware.NumCpu / $_.Config.Hardware.NumCoresPerSocket))}}, @{N=”Cores”; E={$_.Config.Hardware.NumCoresPerSocket}}, @{N=”MemoryMB”; E={$_.Config.Hardware.MemoryMB}}, @{N=”HardwareVersion”;E={$_.Config.Version}}, @{N=”CPU HotAdd”;…

Brave Browser

The Brave browser blocks the ads and trackers that slow you down, chew up your bandwidth, and invade your privacy. Brave even lets you contribute to your favorite creators automatically. Download it here: brave.com

Pfsense Adventures

There were error(s) loading the rules: : cannot define table bogonsv6: Cannot allocate memory – The line in question reads [19]: table persist file “/etc/bogonsv6” over over again, then it stops passing traffic.. thank you internets.   Solution is to…