So, what do I want to write about? Or rather, what is there, and what could I write about?

  • Running VMM to host a couple of VMs
    • Networking with veb/vport
    • Running stuff at Hetzner
  • Making it ping: Running your own AS with OpenBSD and OpenBGPD
    • Getting an AS and Network
    • Finding upstreams
    • Building a ‘tunnel backbone’
    • Using RPKI to filter incoming prefixes
    • Joining an IXP
  • DNS
    • Primary secondary with PowerDNS/NSD a webinterface and DNSSEC
  • Mail
    • Running a mailserver with a fancy webinterface on OpenSMTPd and OpenBSD
    • Configuring rspamd to filter inbound mail, and sign outgoing messages
    • Receiving DMARC reports without having to run half a google data-center
    • Running a secondary without causing backscatter
  • Monitoring
    • Running nagios on OpenBSD to monitor ALL THE THINGS
    • Smokeping to know what’s pinging (with delegated nodes)
    • Munin to know what’s running in your network
    • Setting up NFSen to see what traffic comes to unallocated IP addresses
    • A lot of mail-based monitoring to handle root and automated mails
  • Running a home server with VMM and all you need
    • Setting up a local mirror
    • Setting up a storage device to send videos to your local display (DLNA and Samba)
  • Setting up a http proxy with squid (with TLS and authentication)
  • Setting up Nextcloud
    • Doing RAID shenanigangs (how to run a RAID10 at Hetzner. NSFP!)
    • Running Nextcloud (not from ports) behind NGINX
    • Making the Office integration work using a hidden Alpine VM / cloud VM at Hetzner.
  • Backups!
    • Backing up hosts with rsync and duplicity
    • Monitoring backups

Let’s see if I get to it… ^^