You can set up firewall rules to redirect the traffic destined for public DNS servers to your internal DNS server.

Not sure how to construct that rule in the unifi firewall but it comes down to "any outbound traffic on port 53 that's not destined for the adguard server, redirect it."

I just use ssh for management. Monitoring is handled by nagios.

Shouldn't use the Xfinity router anyway, that thing is fuckin garbage.

You don't need to be home for a cron job to run.

USB has a bad habit of randomly dropping off the bus until you reseat the cable or reset the device.

Wow what a throwback

Windows 11 on the main desktop for gaming reasons. Currently Pop_OS on the laptop, considering moving to Arch. My servers all run Debian or Ubuntu.

freshRSS. I'm using the linuxserver.io docker image.

Nothing is really too much.

I have too much hardware to swap out to go 10G networking or I totally would.

The point of my homelab is for me to learn and break stuff in a safe environment, so if that leads me down a Kubernetes rabbit hole at some point so be it.

If you have a Synology their Surveillance Station product is amazing and will work with basically any IP camera brand.

I'd run my own mail server if deliverability wasn't such a huge hassle.

Basically if you're not google or Microsoft... Don't even bother.

I only rolled my own Wireguard VPN because I wanted to learn how things worked on the backend - I've suggested Tailscale to many other people, its just a really well designed product.

It's astonishing to me how much they're giving away for free.

I have an rsync script that pulls a backup every night from my truenas server to my Synology.

I've been thinking about setting up something with rsync.net so I have a cloud copy of my most important files.