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Building a Homelab DNS Server with BIND: A How-To

2025-09-06

This blog post details the author's journey in setting up a BIND DNS server on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Fedora 42 to achieve digital sovereignty within their home network. The author meticulously guides the reader through the installation and configuration of BIND, covering the main configuration file (`/etc/named.conf`), forward zone file (`/var/named/forward.homelab.jhw`), and reverse zone files (`/var/named/reverse.homelab.jhw` and `/var/named/reverse2.homelab.jhw`). Crucially, the importance of incrementing the serial number after any zone file modifications is stressed to prevent DNS issues. The post concludes with a successful test using `nslookup`, demonstrating the resolution of hostnames within the home network.

Quiet Homelab: OpenShift Cluster on Refurbished ThinkCentre Tinys

2025-05-27

This post details a low-power, quiet homelab built using refurbished Lenovo ThinkCentre Tiny PCs. Running Red Hat Enterprise Linux, these compact machines are used to host an OpenShift cluster, though they're versatile enough for Kubernetes or other containerized applications. The author details the hardware, costs (around €416 total), and even provides a 3D-printed rack-mounting solution. A perfect example of how to build a powerful yet unobtrusive home server setup.

The Dark Side of AI: Your Phone Might Be Part of a DDoS Attack

2025-04-19

Companies are paying app developers to include 'network sharing' SDKs in their apps, creating massive botnets. These botnets leverage unsuspecting users' bandwidth for web scraping, brute-forcing mail servers, and other malicious activities, leading to DDoS attacks on smaller servers. This model, using user devices for web scraping, has become a dark side of AI data collection, and tech giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google should act.