I host my own vpn from home, which keeps me behind my pihole(s) and able to access my private services without exposing them to WAN.

Also secures my mobile traffic from snooping/modifying while on public networks.

Find a problem they are experiencing and introduce them to a solution they can self-host to fix it. Expand from there.

I began my self-hosting journey 7ish years ago with media piracy and a desire to watch/access my files wherever I was. Learned of Plex, then Emby, Reverse Proxies, Domains, SSL, and on and on…

Today I’m running 24+ docker containers and some miscellaneous stuff, across 3 systems; that’s always accessible via my domain/vpn.

what does not work:

• i can not ping server.local (- for testing i have to stop the systemd-resolved.service to run the dnsmasq server, or else there are port collisions, but that should not be the problem i guess. I am happy to hear your solution :))
• i can also not use ssh to log in to server.local, ip address works

Have you added “server.local” as a DNS record in your dnsmasq container, pointing to your servers LAN IP? Sounds like dnsmasq isn’t resolving that name, which would lead to both of these ‘failures’.

Oh damn, I hadn’t noticed. My setup is still functioning just fine.

There is an alternative though: Orbital-Sync

I haven’t actually used it, so I can’t say much about it; but I’ll probably look into replacing gravity-sync with that.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

I use this to translate DNS to DoH, and use cloudflare, and quad9 upstream.

environment:
  - TUNNEL_DNS_UPSTREAM=https://1.1.1.1/dns-query,https://1.0.0.1/dns-query,https://9.9.9.9/dns-query,https://149.112.112.9/dns-query

Haven’t really noticed any DNS based lag.

Why not both?

My primary DNS is pihole on a rpi dedicated to the task; but I run a second instance of pihole via my main docker stack for redundancy. Should one or the other be unavailable, there’s a second one to pick up the slack.

I just provide both DNS IPs to LAN clients via DHCP.

Gravity Sync is a great tool to keep both piholes settings/records/lists in sync.

Same, though I’m using acme.sh and DNS-01. (had to go look at the script that triggers it to remember, lol)

I check the log file my update script writes every few months just to be sure nothings screwy, but I’ve had 0 issues in 7 years of using LE now.

A paid cert isn’t worth it.

https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/cloudflared/

I use pihole+cloudflared to translate all DNS requests on my LAN to DoH requests. Regular DNS isn’t permitted to leave my network. (port 53 outbound is blocked)

Can’t redirect/modify/monitor DoH requests like you can plain DNS.

I work warehousing; no IT background, I just like to tinker with whatever. Have since I started breathing.

I was a fairly casual pirate, grabbing movies/shows I couldn’t find elsewhere (or just couldn’t afford). Got into Plex/Emby for my first real exploration into self-hosting (if you don’t count SRCDS and/or Minecraft Server at like 13yo); and expanded my knowledge from there. Reverse Proxys, the ‘arrs’, DNS, Docker, VPNs, etc.

Now a days, I’ve got 20+ services that I mostly access via a VPN I host, and I’m always interested in messing with new things :)

Glad I could help :)

At least this post wasn’t a total waste…

Sigh. Spend an hour looking for a solution, fall back to a post asking for help, find the solution 5min later…

For anyone else searching in the future:

From paperless-ngxs settings page (logged in as an admin)

‘Open Django-Admin’ > ‘Paperless Mail’ > ‘Processed Mails’

Select what you’d like, then delete.

Running the media streaming software on a separate machine is a good idea IF you need transcoding; ie, you need/want to translate the files into another format or a lower quality (for poor remote connections) on-the-fly before serving them to users.

If your clients can play the files just fine as-is, another machine doesn’t really add anything except complexity.

So, for the slow people in the back… (me)

Copyleft = permanently open source? Ie, you can’t take the open source code/project and make it closed source? (or build a new closed project off of it?)

Or am I misunderstanding?

Repost: https://feddit.uk/post/16382677

It’s barely been two days…

I found my works wifi blocks most ports outbound, but switching my my vpn to a more ‘standard’ port like 80, 443, 22, etc gets through just fine.

Now I’ve got a couple port forwarding rules I can switch on, as needed, that take one of those and route it to my vpn host.

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Yeah, 2.5+ years since the last release?

Somehow I don’t think this has survived youtubes client war…

Na, I’m still using a TV from 2009.

About 150$

Bit of a different solution:

If Paperless-NGX is one of the things you self-host; it has options to import emails based on your specified criteria, then you could have it delete each piece of mail it imports. You can also just have it move mail to folders on the mail server, or just tag/flag mail instead of deleting it. (for you to then manually delete at your leisure)

I use this to automatically import receipts, bills, work documents, and any other regular mail instead of dealing with it manually every week/month.