Apr 15 · 4 min read · Originally published at recca0120.github.io You open analytics.google.com in Chrome and click the certificate — and see this: Subject: myproject.test Issuer: Laravel Valet CA Self Signed CN That's not Google's certificate. That's your local Laravel V...
Join discussionJul 10, 2025 · 4 min read · What is DNS? Ever wondered what magical force lets you type google.com and instantly bring up the world’s most powerful search engine? No, it’s not unicorns or fairy dust. It’s something called DNS, the Domain Name System, aka the internet’s very own...
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Mar 30, 2025 · 5 min read · DNSMASQ is a lightweight, easy-to-configure, and highly efficient DNS forwarder and DHCP server. It has been a staple in networking environments for decades, particularly in embedded systems, home routers, small business networks, and even large-scal...
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Mar 14, 2025 · 4 min read · When it comes to ensuring reliable and resilient name resolution, traditional approaches to DNS often fall short. Many businesses and service providers still rely on outdated methods such as configuring two or three static resolvers, typically pointi...
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Mar 2, 2025 · 3 min read · In a world where DNS privacy and security are critical, network administrators often need to ensure that all DNS traffic flows through a trusted resolver. If your Debian box is acting as a router or firewall, you may want to prevent users from bypass...
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Nov 28, 2024 · 5 min read · The Setup: A Common AWS Architecture Tale Picture this: You're running a modern application on AWS. Your setup looks perfect on paper: A fleet of EC2 instances or ECS containers running your applications An Application Load Balancer (ALB) distribut...
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Oct 1, 2024 · 2 min read · The first step is to compile DNSMASQ v2.89. This is the one with nftset support. The prerequisites that need to be installed are build-essential, libdbus-1-dev, libnetfilter-conntrack-dev, idn, libidn11-dev, nettle-dev, gettext, and libnftables-dev. ...
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Jul 27, 2024 · 1 min read · This is a article explains how to configure OpenWRT so that a guest WiFi can only access Whatsapp but it can be used generically to whitelist access from the guest Wi-Fi. Make certain the /etc/resolv.conf has Quad9 as the name server: search lan name...
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Jul 5, 2024 · 2 min read · This is a custom configuration of DNSMASQ that can be used on a edge node to provide filtering and security services. The first step is to provide suitable DNS servers for the edge node resolv.conf file. We provide two variants. The first variant pro...
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Jul 2, 2023 · 4 min read · dnsmasq log files are extremely useful but the package itself does not offer any way of managing them. So using the dnsmasq-logrotate package outlined here will ensure that logs are created and then managed by the standard distro logrotate utility. A...
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