Technically something like DANE can allow you to present DNSSEC-backed self-signed certs and even allow multi-domain matching that removes the need for SNI and Encrypted Client Hello… but until the browsers say it is supported, it’s not

I write homelab docs mostly for user guidance like onboarding, login, and service-specific stuff. This helps me better design for people by putting myself in their shoes, and should act as a reference document for any member to come back to.

Previously I built an Mkdocs-Material website with a nice subdomain for it, but since the project went on maintenance mode, I’m gonna migrate all docs back to a Forgejo wiki since it’s just Markdown anyways. I also run an issue tracker there, to manage the homelab’s roadmaps and features since it’s still evolving.

I find this approach benefiting compared to just documenting code. I’m not an IaC person yet, but I hope when I am, the playbooks should describe themselves for the nitty-gritty stuff anyways. I do write some infra notes for myself and perhaps to onboard maintainers, but most homelab developments happen in the issue tracker itself. The rest I try to keep it simple enough for an individual to understand

Panasonic Let’s Note, SV7 or SZ7 I think. Japanese domestic notebook for enterprises

Nextcloud forked from the old PHP-based ownCloud stack, while Opencloud forked from the Infinite Scale Go-based stack. It also by default preserves the filesystem hierarchy on your server without needing a database, using a storage driver called PosixFS.

The Windows clients currently do support selective syncing so it is on-par with OneDrive. Android client looks to be forked from old Owncloud, and has offline availability too.

Try Syncthing with IgnoreDelete but note that it’s unrecommended. Maybe use Syncthing as an append-only store

due to it missing ideal features

what features do you want? kindly elaborate

XMPP with Snikket could be an easy solution. If you don’t want to talk to the wider web make sure to disable federation.

Pihole runs on dnsmasq right? Maybe you could create a cronjob to copy the underlying dnsmasq.conf to other Piholes

Ah, I see. Well I’m glad you found PiHole useful and stick to using it anyhow!

What issues did you have reverse-proxying? For me it was just as simple as pointing to port 5380. Other ports like 53 could be passed on with a layer-4 router

What about the login issues? I’d hope they’ll be integrating with OIDC or some other auth mechanism, but for now managing 2FA creds should make do

Off the top of my head:

• Allows using DoH/DoT/DoQUIC/recursive upstreams without installing extra packages (unbound, cloudflared, etc)
• Allows acting as a DoH/DoH3/DoT/DoQUIC server alongside normal DNS over UDP and TCP
• Allows configuring SOCKS/HTTP proxies for forwarders
• Act as authoritative zone server with DNSSEC signing
• Allows custom responses via plugins (e.g. conditional responses based on client’s IP addresses)
• Accept PROXY Protocol to forward client IPs from trusted load balancers
• All the clustering and zone transfers magic
• DNS64

It really dives deep into the inner workings of DNS and does pretty much anything Pi-Hole does, with many more security and QoL features. Although the UI may feel a bit dated, I’d recommend it to anyone running their own homelab infrastructure beyond just adblocking

Just found out someone else has a similar thing too:

https://github.com/juhovh/tailguard

It seems more flexible and can be used site-to-site, for anyone interested

Thanks for posting this here. I’m not sure what to think about this, just set up mkdocs-material with huge customizations, including the macros plugin and tons of CSS. So it’d be tedious to eventually migrate to the new “component system” as they say.

Welp, should’ve gone with a barebone SSG and configured what I want. Feels like I’m kinda stuck in no man’s land now.

I find it odd that a report for the proprietary Github platform takes the newsletter’s spotlight, it’s not very relevant. I’d much prefer if the writer could expand his thoughts on those new version releases or featured blogposts, especially the ones he finds interested in.

To make it even simpler, apk -U upgrade

You’ll need a TURN server to relay calls and provide signalling capabilities, which is needed most of the time. Here’s Synapse docs on it, and I’ll probably use coturn:

https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/turn-howto.html

There’s also this new technology called Element Call, which uses a diffent tool called LiveKit. You should check it out too

https://github.com/element-hq/element-call/blob/livekit/README.md