I have deployed a monitoring VPS somewhere on someone else’s computer and I want all my other servers to send it their metrics and logs and alerts etc. But in order to cruise the Wild Wild Web in a safer way, I connect all those nodes using WireGuard.
Recently I deployed a FreeBSD instance in such a way that it has to initiate the connection to the OpenBSD monitoring server using WireGuard. That’s what those notes are about.Continue reading...
The other day, I used FreeBSD on a Raspberry Pi card to get a redundant DHCP server and DNS resolver working together with an OpenBSD server.
It works great. But another FreeBSD server is available and I don’t really need yet another gadget powered on. So I moved both the DHCP and DNS services to this machine. While I was there, I took the opportunity to put them into their own jails. Because, you know, privilege escalation…Continue reading...
Some time ago, I set up Redundant DHCP server and DNS Resolver using OpenBSD . Time has past and one of the Raspberry Pi board I own is now running FreeBSD while the ODROID HC4 is running OpenBSD .
I secured both my DHCP server and DNS resolver services running on those boards so that I can perform maintenance on one machine without turning down the whole services set.Continue reading...
Not convinced lately with OpenBSD on this board , I went searching for another BSD OS to run on the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. According to the documentation, FreeBSD should do fine.
Let’s have a look.Continue reading...
I’ve been lurking on the PINE64 ROCKPro64 for a long time but its price compared to other options has always kept me from buying one. But being very happy with my ODROID HC4, I went hunting for a ROCKPro64 and found one.
I have (a small) ZFS NAS plans for it. But before I get all the hardware, let’s take a quick look at it running various BSD systems.Continue reading...