Category: Networking

  • WireGuard

    WireGuard

    This is the first post of several. Next posts will focus on running WireGuard inside a Docker container on amd64 Linux and a Raspberry Pi. I’ve been running WireGuard for a few months now and I’ve been loving it. I first started using it about a year ago when in China — OpenVPN was once…

  • Smokeping

    Smokeping

    Back in the days — when I was 16 or so — Smokeping was the rage. Every colo provider in Amsterdam, every NOC, they all had their own Smokeping. Playing around with Docker I saw some Smokeping image and that made me want to set it up again. I’m running Smokeping on my server in…

  • Box — Docker shell server

    Box — Docker shell server

    A couple of months ago I had the great idea to set up a shell server in Docker. Simply because my docker skillz were quite rusty and a shell server was something I actually genuinely needed. Shell servers… so 2005. I remember in the good old IRC days people asking for (free) shell servers to…

  • NextDNS + EdgeRouter + Redirecting DNS requests

    NextDNS + EdgeRouter + Redirecting DNS requests

    Realised I haven’t updated this in a long while (life happened). Couple of weeks ago I started to play with NextDNS — and I really recommend anyone that’s something privacy minded and cares about the stuff happening on their network. I’ve set up several configs (home, parents, FlatTurtle TurtleBox (the NUCs controlling the screens)) and…

  • Edgerouter IPsec tunnel to Fritzbox

    So, I have an EdgeRouter Lite in Singapore (Starhub) and a FritzBox in Belgium (EDPnet). This is mostly stuff that I have found from several articles, mostly from here. ERL: eth0 is WAN, eth1 (10.60.111.0/24) and eth2 (unused, not VPN’ed) are LAN FritzBoz: 192.168.1.0/24 This is the FritzBox config (go to VPN and them Import…

  • Blockchain

    Probably the best and easiest to understand Blockchain explanation I’ve seen. (Source)

  • EVA and WiFi

    So I am flying EVA from SIN – TPE – JFK and back. For the first time I also went to the dark side (16hrs was too long to be locked up with just my mind) and got onboard WiFi. This seems to come with unlimited data for ~20USD for 24hrs. I manage to stream…

  • Yard Sale – Free pick up

    Free pick up in Grimbergen, Diegem or Brussels North. Email: [email protected] Everything has been stored for a while in my garage and is untested. Dual P3 1u server      1u dual Pentium 3 1Ghz server 2x 72.8Gb 10k rpm SCSI (one probably died) 1280Mb RAM Served for years as mail & web server in Amsterdam…

  • Postfix & Courier & Letsencrypt

    First of all, create your certificates (the regular way). I created one with multiple domains: webmail.rootspirit.com, mail.rootspirit.com, smtp.rootspirit.com. In my case, as the mailserver and webserver are behind a proxy (postfix, imap, Roundcube Webmail), I create the certificate on the proxy (nginx) and scp the cert to the mail server. All this is automated with…