I am just curious for all you folks that run home computer labs.
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I am just curious for all you folks that run home computer labs. How do y'all handle DNS? I use dnsmasq because it is pretty powerful and does dynamic DNS automagically.
@housepanther I’m using a DNS built-in into my UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra.
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@housepanther I’m using a DNS built-in into my UniFi Cloud Gateway Ultra.
@yehor How do you like that hardware?
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@yehor How do you like that hardware?
@housepanther the best network gear for #homelab. I had Asus, Google and even Synology routers beforehand.
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I am just curious for all you folks that run home computer labs. How do y'all handle DNS? I use dnsmasq because it is pretty powerful and does dynamic DNS automagically.
@housepanther I've got two "levels" of DNS. The DNS server everything in my network has configured by default is the Unbound resolver/recursor running on my OPNsense firewall box. For most things, that resolver goes out to the internet as usual to resolve IPs. It also adds DHCP leases for all of my machines to DNS.
For my internal domains, I've got a PowerDNS instance running, hwich is configured as authoritative for my domain, and which gets all the internal addresses. Unbound forwards there.
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@housepanther I've got two "levels" of DNS. The DNS server everything in my network has configured by default is the Unbound resolver/recursor running on my OPNsense firewall box. For most things, that resolver goes out to the internet as usual to resolve IPs. It also adds DHCP leases for all of my machines to DNS.
For my internal domains, I've got a PowerDNS instance running, hwich is configured as authoritative for my domain, and which gets all the internal addresses. Unbound forwards there.
@mmeier I'm thinking of replacing my ISP-provided router with OPNsense running on a Dell OptIplex SFF box. I need more routing horsepower.
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I am just curious for all you folks that run home computer labs. How do y'all handle DNS? I use dnsmasq because it is pretty powerful and does dynamic DNS automagically.
@housepanther I’ve been using Technitium for a while - it’s powerful enough to do everything I want.
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@housepanther I’ve been using Technitium for a while - it’s powerful enough to do everything I want.
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I am just curious for all you folks that run home computer labs. How do y'all handle DNS? I use dnsmasq because it is pretty powerful and does dynamic DNS automagically.
@housepanther I don't have a business connection so I'm stuck behind cgNAT. I manually manage all of it though Cloudflare (i know, i don't like them either but I'm too busy to find someone else right now). Every 6 weeks or so Comcast thinks its funny to change my IP address and I've neither got the spoons nor the knowledge to automate fixing all of it. I guess I'm mostly commenting to also get advice on that one. -
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@housepanther I don't have a business connection so I'm stuck behind cgNAT. I manually manage all of it though Cloudflare (i know, i don't like them either but I'm too busy to find someone else right now). Every 6 weeks or so Comcast thinks its funny to change my IP address and I've neither got the spoons nor the knowledge to automate fixing all of it. I guess I'm mostly commenting to also get advice on that one.
@NoraBell I get around this problem with a cheap VPS. I use a WireGuard tunnel between the VPS and a server at home. From there, I NAT traffic coming inbound between the server and local network so I can have access to my local network. I'll do a write up on my blog if that would help you.
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@housepanther I don't have a business connection so I'm stuck behind cgNAT. I manually manage all of it though Cloudflare (i know, i don't like them either but I'm too busy to find someone else right now). Every 6 weeks or so Comcast thinks its funny to change my IP address and I've neither got the spoons nor the knowledge to automate fixing all of it. I guess I'm mostly commenting to also get advice on that one.
@NoraBell I don't have a business grade connection either and CGNAT blows!
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@NoraBell I get around this problem with a cheap VPS. I use a WireGuard tunnel between the VPS and a server at home. From there, I NAT traffic coming inbound between the server and local network so I can have access to my local network. I'll do a write up on my blog if that would help you.
@housepanther That would be incredible!
