Radon season?
OK, I said I’d stop writing about Radon for a bit, but, well, I can’t help it. A few readers have written in with their screenshots, and I thought I would share them back out. First, if you read no further, and you live in a house with a ground floor or basement, and you…
DNS over HTTPS: enabling, padding, live. Great success!
OK, turns out this was easier than I thought. I added this line on my router (running Lede 17.04). I did this via Luci, but you can just edit the /etc/opkg/distfeeds.conf file too. src/gz reboot_packages https://downloads.openwrt.org/snapshots/packages/arm_cortex-a9_vfpv3/packages/ to my package source list. I then did ‘opkg install stubby’. In /etc/stubby/stubby.yml, I added (see https://getdnsapi.net/documentation/manpages/stubby/ for docs) upstream_recursive_servers:…
DNS over HTTPS with Cloudflare, an experiment, some timings, lots of promise!
OK here’s a recipe for you to experiment with. I chose to use https://github.com/facebookexperimental/doh-proxy to try. I looked at a few others (e.g. https://github.com/wrouesnel/dns-over-https-proxy –> but this is only for Google DNS, and https://github.com/aarond10/https_dns_proxy, but that only does A/AAAA, no MX or SOA or TXT). Also I chose to use a proxy (converting UDP – DNS to DNS over…
DNS over HTTPS, Internet vanity-plate IP addresses
Yesterday CloudFlare announced their open DNS recursive resolver. Many of you will have heard of Google’s free DNS (8.8.8.8), and also are aware that there are others like OpenDNS etc (but ironically would have to Google its IP!). Well, joining the fray is CloudFlare with an IP of 1.1.1.1 (and 1.0.0.1). And CloudFlare has an…
Running a GPU-accelerated application in an LXD container
OK so I updated my desktop to 18.04 about a month ago (its coming in to release date). And one of the apps that I use that is a bit crusty is OpenSCAD. One option is to run it in a snap (https://github.com/plars/openscad-snap). Yeah, that sort of worked, but I had a mystery problem where…
Long Strange Trip
