If you use Wireguard with peers whose IP address changes (e.g. because they are on a private DSL connection), you have to check the IP address regularly. Wireguard itself only does a DNS resolution when starting the interface to get the current ...
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Why WordPress security is important
Those who run a small blog may think that a secure password or 2-factor authentication are not so important. However, this is a fallacy: even a blog little only a few dozen accesses a day ...
Continue readingFreeNAS: Speed up SMB/CIFS collection
If you have set up a Windows share with FreeNAS, you can significantly reduce the time it takes to list the files in a folder. For this, some parameters have to be passed to Samba. This can be done easily via the ...
Continue readingFreeNAS 11.2: new web interface & new features
After FreeNAS 10 "Corral" was a first - quickly failing - attempt to introduce a new user interface, there is now a new, AngularJS based UI with FreeNAS 11.2. This is also mobile optimized. Apart from the web interface, ...
Continue readingFreenas 11.1: use the integrated OpenVPN client
For some time now, I have been using two FreeNAS boxes at two locations to back up my data using ZFS snapshots and replication. This connection should be additionally secured via OpenVPN. The idea: at both locations one Raspberry ...
Continue readingNginx: Do not save IP address in log files
If you want to store as little data as possible for data protection reasons - DSGVO is the keyword - you can define an appropriate log file format. This anonymizes both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. For the error logs, unfortunately, no new ...
Continue readingRaspberry Pi 3B+: Gigabit-LAN and 200 MHz more clock
The Raspberry Foundation has presented a revision of the Raspberry 3: the model 3B+. More clock and better network connectivity are the main features. The format has remained the same, existing projects with a Raspberry Pi can ...
Continue readingFreeNAS 11.1 released
The FreeBSD-based NAS system FreeNAS has been released in the new version 11.1, which brings several innovations. The changes in the changelog concern OpenZFS, which is especially useful for processing snapshots and large files.
Continue readingFreeNAS: Pi-Hole & PiVPN in Ubuntu VM
If you use FreeNAS 11 as NAS or home server software, you can use pi-hole as well as pi-vpn and access your own network as well as block advertisements reliably. PiVPN (http://www.pivpn.io/) is an installation and administration script for OpenVPN. Actually ...
Continue readingFreeNAS: Mount 9p Volume/Dataset in VM
Who uses FreeNAS with virtual machines (I have e.g. the development environment for the blog theme in an Ubuntu VM) will sooner or later want to use data of the NAS. FreeNAS offers VT9P as a possibility here. The Plan9 file system ...
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