Making Pi-hole Highly Available (and Fixing a Hidden Frigate Disk Trap)
A single Pi-hole reboot used to take my whole network’s DNS/DHCP offline. Here’s how I added a secondary DNS Pi-hole on a separate host, kept it in sync,…
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How to enable DNS logging to monitor requests
This comes from the 'Learn something new every day' file. Working with a client to decommission an old DNS server, this important question came up: How do we…
How to add an SSL Certificate to Home Assistant (the old fashioned way)
So this blog post is mainly for ME to reference in about a year when I have to do this process again. The certificate I use for my…
My Pi-Hole is out of Space! How to free up space to upgrade.
Even though I just recently upgraded my Pi-Hole configuration [Here], turns out there was another update to process this morning. Yippee! The process is to putty into the…
Step-by-step guide to moving your blog from Blogger to WordPress on AWS
So we are finally HERE. All migrated and converted from Blogger to WordPress as well as moved from Google to AWS. All thanks to an Open Live Writer…
Pi-Hole DNS resolution is currently unavailable – FIXED
Something weird happened today that took way longer to fix than it should have. So here it is: I run Pi-Hole on my network to block malware, advertisements…
Quick tip: Saving Credentials for Multiple RDP Hosts at the Same IP Address
Here’s a quick year end tip from Jacques Bensimon. If you use port translation to access multiple Microsoft Remote Desktop hosts behind a single external IP address, you…
VMware 6 : Unable to connect to the MKS: Internal Error
Almost EVERY SINGLE time I see this error, it’s DNS related. When I ran into it tonight, I immediately thought I had fat fingered the DNS entries in…
VMware Site Recovery Manager – DNS Stalls for 20 minutes.
Chris Monfet sent over a handy setting for those of us leveraging VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) to protect our Active Directory infrastructures. I was running a bubble…