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Internet outage phenomenons

I woke to an oddity. The lights hadn’t come on at 06:00 based on the light outside. I checked the pihole and it indicated a crazy increase in DNS requests since about midnight. I initially worried it was an exfiltrating malware. However then on the pihole I noticed the massive increase was in requests to…
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ben 2021-06-23 0

Rejigging the home network

I’ve been tinkering with pihole at home with a thought to throwing it live across the home network, however prior to that I’ve been planning to rebuild the network to be more orderly. I finally got motivated last night, so I created a spreadsheet of my intended network layout (reservations, spaces for growth, DHCP pool)…
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ben 2020-12-30 0