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Mar/20

Filtering Websites With Ubiquiti Security Gateway And OpenDNS

Filed Under Networking at 2nd March 2020 0:01 by

Overview The Unifi Security Gateway (USG) can be setup to assign a custom DNS server. The DNS server itself will perform the blocking based on the sites people/devices access. Pre-Requisites In order for everything to work beyond a working Unifi … Continue reading →

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Dec/19

Pi-hole DNS Filtering

Filed Under Container, Infrastructure, Linux at 2nd December 2019 0:01 by

Overview Pi-hole is a very light weight, DNS filtering server. It’s so light that there are reports it can even run on a Raspberry Pi 1! Example reasons for filtering DNS include blocking ads to filtering out harmful sites (content … Continue reading →

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Aug/14

Docker On DigitalOcean Cannot Resolve Hostnames

Filed Under Linux at 25th August 2014 0:01 by

Overview I encountered an issue where during the build of my Docker container it was not able to get a response back during an apt-get update command. It turns out it was unable to resolve the DNS entries because of … Continue reading →

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Apr/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 3 – Up And Running

Filed Under Infrastructure at 29th April 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 2 looked at the differences of AWS/IaaS to VPS. Part 3 will be looking at the cost after a period of time. Running Report The Amazon Web Services have been running for over 3 months with February running … Continue reading →

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Feb/13

IaaS Or VPS Part 2 – Setup And Install

Filed Under Infrastructure at 11th February 2013 0:01 by

Overview Part 1 described the reasoning and setup behind the comparison. In this post I will go through the implementation of AWS and the final comparison of IaaS Vs. VPS Setup EC2 Setting up an EC2 and RDS instance was … Continue reading →

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Jun/12

Ubuntu 12.04 DHCP Server

Filed Under Linux at 18th June 2012 0:01 by

Overview A DHCP server issues computers on the network IP addresses. Normally this is done by the router but a computer is more flexible because: Cheap to add multiple network interface cards More control over network traffic Fits into other … Continue reading →

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Nov/11

namebench – DNS Tester

Filed Under Networking at 8th November 2011 0:01 by

There’s a really good DNS benchmark tester called namebench. It’s free (beer and source) and runs on Windows and Mac OSX. The software tests the current DNS as well as popular DNS servers like OpenDNS and Google. It also has … Continue reading →

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Sep/11

Page Speed Tests

Filed Under Website at 13th September 2011 17:23 by

Overview Since April 2010, Google has incorporated page speed and loading times into it’s search ranking. Whilst this may not be a huge factor in the rankings it’s something to be aware of. This means optimizing web sites has never … Continue reading →