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Tag: Networking

  • Using Cloudflare CDN

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    A couple of years ago I decided to switch my domain registrar. I’d been using this particular registrar for many years and had been unhappy with them pretty much from day one, I would have switched away sooner but it’s hassle and they made a charge for the privilege. I decided to move to Google…

  • Task Management with Vikunja

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    Vikunja is a task / project management application. The unpronounceable name apparently comes from a relative of the llama, overlooking the name for a moment this appears to be a great application. Deployment is a little trickier than with most applications as it, at a minimum, comes as three parts. You have a database, the…

  • Using Your MikroTik Router with Sky / Now TV Broadband

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    I recently switch to Sky / Now TV broadband from Plusnet. I’d been with Plusnet for many years and while they started out as a fairly decent company with some well priced offerings as they have grown they have become worse and worse. The customer service has slipped and the prices have risen. My contract…

  • Setting up a L2TP VPN on a MikroTik Router

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    I’m running a MikroTik RouterBOARD 962UiGS-5HacT2HnT with a level 4 license. This set up should work on any level 3 or higher licensed version of RouterOS which I think is now all of them. I’m setting this up using WinBox, it can also be done using the web interface and the command line. Add an…

  • Making a Docker Container Use a VPN

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    A while back I wrote a post on routing all traffic through a VPN under Linux. The solution discussed in that post is fine if you are only dealing with regular applications but when you are dealing with containers the world is a difference place. Docker networks are, or at least can be, complicated. By…

  • Routing All Traffic Over a VPN Under Linux

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    I’ve recently been setting up a machine that has to send all data over a VPN which feels like it should be really simple but has actually turned out to be tougher than I expected. I thought I could set it up by using routing and I think it’s probably possible but way more hassle…

  • Remapping Network Shares at Login

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    I map a couple of drives from my NAS on my machine and for some reason they stopped reattaching correctly at login. I searched high and low for an answer but that’s the sort of question that generates millions of useless woo woo solutions. In the end I write a little command script to remap…

  • Reading Material

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    Over the years I’ve read my fair share of books on various aspects of computing from operating system design through to test driven development and for the last few years I’ve also been taking MOOC’s as I like the learning style. It occurred to me that I should probably keep a list so that I can see what I need…

  • Simpler KVM Network Configuration

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    In the series of articles I wrote discussing the installation of KVM on Ubuntu I spent articles 2 and 3 discussing the network set up but it occurred to me that it was actually an unnecessarily difficult set up and so in this article I’ll discuss a simpler KVM network configuration set up.

  • BIND Query Refused

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    I’ve just set up a new BIND DNS server for a new network. I configured the network in a way I’ve not done before which was to have the servers on a different subnet to the regular machines and other devices. I prefer this set up but it has resulted in me having to do…

  • Fixing the Default KVM Host Firewall

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    I recently installed KVM on my laptop and all was going reasonably well until I tried to connect to the internet from one of the guests. For some reason that I couldn’t fathom at first the guest couldn’t talk to the internet and the local network couldn’t talk to the guest. This surprised me because…

  • Installing and Running KVM on Ubuntu 14.04 Part 6

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    In part 5 I talked about auto-starting KVM guest machines and setting up a console that could be accessed through virsh. In this section I’ll cover accessing the guest using VNC.