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Cake day: December 18th, 2023

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  • I broke DNS plenty of times in my homelab independent from NAT. In the last few months:

    • didn’t turn off DNS server in a wifi router set up as bridged access point
    • dnsmasq failing to start because I removed an interface
    • dnsmasq failing to start because the kernel/udev didn’t rename an interface on time
    • dnsmasq failing to start because hostapd error didn’t set proper interface settings
    • forgot to remove static DNS entries in /etc/hosts used for testing
    • forgot to remove DNS entries from /etc/resolve.conf after visiting a friend and working on his setup

    Yes, most of them is my dumb ass making mistakes, but in the end it’s something that constantly breaks and it helps knowing the IP addresses of my servers and routers.

    Aditionally, obscurity is a security helper. The problem is relying only on obscurity. But if I have proper firewall rules in place and strong usernames and passwords I still prefer if you don’t even know the IP addresses of my servers on top of that (in case I break some of the other security layers).


















  • As long as there is no Manchurian president in the US, we have Article 5. If surplus hardware from the 80s and 100 Bradleys have done what they have done imagine what 1000 Bradleys hundreds of we’ll supplied and maintained Abrahams, Leos and Challengers can do when supported by the good ATACMS, Tomahawks and of course hundreds of F16s, F22s and F35s. There is no need for nuclear weapons, NATO can curb stomp Russia in traditional warfare. You need one breakthrough and then Prigozhin showed what defenses you can expect once you get past the front. Or Ukraine with their kamikaze Cessnas.