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- HOWTO: Make iPhone / iPad (IOS) Use Your Own DNS Server or DNSBL Like Pi-Hole, void-zones-tools, or pfBlockerNG by ByPassing iCloud Private Relay for DNS
- HOWTO: Setup void-zones-tools dnsbl DNS Blocklist (like Pi-Hole) on OpenBSD
- HOWTO Fix Artificially High Load Average on FreeBSD Running on Oracle Cloud
- HOWTO Allow Ping and Traceroute and MTR (ICMP) to Oracle Cloud Vm Instances and Generally Configure the Firewall- A Visual Guide
- Clock Offset When Running DragonFlyBSD in a VM with Bhyve under FreeBSD
Tag Archives: Computers
HOWTO: Make iPhone / iPad (IOS) Use Your Own DNS Server or DNSBL Like Pi-Hole, void-zones-tools, or pfBlockerNG by ByPassing iCloud Private Relay for DNS
So you want to use your own DNS server on your iPhone or iPad. Maybe your dns server is also a dnsbl (DNS Blocklist or DNS Blacklist) that you use to block unwanted ads, telemetry and malware. This might be … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple, Computers, dns, dnsbl, FreeBSD, Internet, IOS, iPad, iPhone, linux, MAc, OpenBSD, pfSense, Pi-Hole, unbound, void-zones, void-zones-tools
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HOWTO: Setup void-zones-tools dnsbl DNS Blocklist (like Pi-Hole) on OpenBSD
I like to use DNS blocklists to block ads, telemetry, and potential malware. Things like Pi-Hole have been popular for a while. If you search you can also find lists to block “offensive” website domains as well, such as adult … Continue reading
HOWTO Fix Artificially High Load Average on FreeBSD Running on Oracle Cloud
I noticed that my amd64 VPSes on Oracle Cloud all had load averages over 1.0. These are the free tier VM.Standard.E2.1.Micro instances. # w 6:11PM up 5 days, 1 hr, 2 users, load averages: 1.39, 1.62, 1.41 This was with … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, FreeBSD, Load Average, Oracle Cloud, unix, vm, VPS
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Clock Offset When Running DragonFlyBSD in a VM with Bhyve under FreeBSD
When running a DragonFlyBSD system as a guest OS virtual machine under the Bhyve hpervisor running under FreeBSD as the host I ran into an issue where the clock on the DragonFlyBSD vm was way off and had to do … Continue reading
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Tagged bhyve, BSD, clock, Computers, DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, hypervisor, localtime, RTC, time, unix, UTC, Virtual Machine, vm
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Broken IPv6 on FreeBSD or mtr: Unexpected mtr-packet error with IPv6 on FreeBSD 13, or Other BSD Systems
This error could be caused by a number of things, but in my case it was a simple error in my ipfw rules. My FreeBSD 13 box would work perfectly for IPv4, but fail with this error for IPv6. IPv6 … Continue reading
Custom Routing for FreeBSD Jails – or How To Set a Unique Default Route or Default Gateway for Each Jail
I was recently configuring a FreeBSD 13.0 box to run unbound (caching DNS Resolver) in two separate jails. The machine was connected to two WANs through two interfaces. The goal was to have one unbound jail route queries to WAN … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, default gateway, dns, fib, FreeBSD, Internet, jail, route, routing, setfib, unbound, unix
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How to Fix It: Error connecting to database: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2054] The server requested authentication method unknown to the client with PHP and MySQLd
So you updated MySQLd, or perhaps you just updated your distro, like to Ubuntu 20 LTS or whatever the latest and great flavor of the day is… And now you keep getting these pesky errors every time you try to … Continue reading
courier mta Virtual Users Deliver to mbox Instead of Maildir – Failure of maildrop – .mailfilter Doesn’t Work
In a recent server upgrade (and in fact in a prior server upgrade a few years back) I ran into a problem where my Courier Mail Server (courier-mta) virtual users (virtual domains) for use with IMAP or POP3 (and with … Continue reading
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Tagged authdaemon, authmysql, Computers, config, courier, courier-mta, email, ESMTP, IMAP, linux, mail, maildrop, MySQL, POP, SMTP, Ubuntu, unix, Virtual, Virtual Domains, Virtual USers
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How to Fix Slow Samba smbd on OpenBSD
So I have been testing out a Samba file server on my OpenBSD 6.7 machine. Its read speed from the OpenBSD Samba server to a Windows 10 client was about 100MB/sec, right where I would expect it with Gigabit Ethernet. … Continue reading
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Tagged BSD, Computers, File Server, linux, OpenBSD, Samba, smb, smbd, sysctl, unix
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