I fixed DNS
(My DNS queries were blocked by my ISP’s modem, I flashed OpenWRT on an old WiFi Repeater, and set up a DoH proxy)
I joined Lemmy back in 2020 and have been using it as qaz@lemmy.ml until somewhere in 2023 when I switched to lemmy.world. I’m interested in systemd/Linux, FOSS, and Selfhosting.
I fixed DNS
(My DNS queries were blocked by my ISP’s modem, I flashed OpenWRT on an old WiFi Repeater, and set up a DoH proxy)
Thanks for the advice. I also use a cheap domain with a wildcard, but use nginx instead. I just tried using Adguard and although it’s fascinating to see the insights of all the DNS requests, it didn’t really help fix the issue. However, since using DoH with Cloudflare in combination with setting it to the specific IP instead of my local device name and have 100% uptime now (since the last 10 minutes that is).
I’m using a public DNS record that points to a local device.
*.example.org → example.org
example.org → device_name.lan
Uptime Kuma seems to use nscd
for caching internally and the default system DNS resolver.
I’ve added a custom DNS resolvers to Uptime Kuma, and apparently it can get the records from Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) but it can’t get it from the OpenWRT router (192.168.1.1). 🤔
I’ve enabled a proxy on the router to force the use of DoH, maybe that will help if the ISP’s modem is at fault.
Since the records have TTL of 5 minutes wouldn’t dnsmasq
have to reach to upstream DNS servers every 5 minutes?
If you self-host your own instance, make sure to disable image hosting / caching. I’ve had to DM a lot of people to inform them of “problematic” images hosted on their instance.
Which provider did you use? Also, Hetzner costs the same but with 8GB RAM.
Old PC’s and especially laptops (make sure to consider removing the battery though) make great homeservers. You can run dozens of services on old hardware.
Yes, but if you care about power efficiency then they really aren’t a great option. Most professional server hardware that you can get for a decent price uses significantly more power than an old mini computer or a cheap N100 PC. I own a proliant but rarely power it on due to the fact that I could rent an similarly performant VPS for 2x the power bill. Besides that many server CPU’s don’t have integrated GPU’s and will require additional hardware if you want to run something like Jellyfin.
You can use Tailscale, you can access your personal services with it but also expose public services with their Funnels system.
Keep in mind that while the clients are open source, their servers are running proprietary software.
I tried this a while ago in combination with tailscale, exposing the VPN as an exit node. However, I found the performance to be problematic.
Linkwarden can manage links and automatically archive the page as PDF, image, and/or HTML/CSS
FYI, the repo has been moved and the link is outdated
Why does it list Gitea instead of Forgejo?
Cockpit’s GUI can only manage individual containers, not stacks
I recommend going with Debian (without desktop) and Docker compose. You can use something like Dockage to make it easier.
What are you running on it?
I’m happy with my little N100
Good that they made a decision, the old security features restricting which commands you could run were awful and could be bypassed by accident. You could run
ALLOWED_COMMAMD; ANY_OTHER_COMMAND
.