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Cake day: July 28th, 2023

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  • Install Ubuntu and be done. I’m able to print to my brother network printer with no special drivers. I installed a gnome tweaks package to do some minor tweaks in gnome, and I did rip out the Firefox snap thing to install Firefox from a package so I could use my kpxc plugin, but that’s the only major change I made. Hell, Dell (laptop) even provides firmware updates via the package manager so your bios gets updated properly. Best Linux desktop experience I’ve ever had over the past 5 years and I’ve been daily driving Ubuntu since 2004.
















  • If a service was serving the webfinger, it could guess which account needed to be returned based on the requesters user agent. If the UA was mastodon, it could return the mastodon link rel, if pixelfed then return that link rel, etc.

    Might be able to rig it with some more complex conditional logic and regex in nginx as a bandaid. AFAICT, the webfinger spec doesn’t really allow for this, which if true, was pretty short sighted.

    I haven’t considered more in depth S2S connections. I’ll have to watch the traffic logs and see what exactly is being requested and see if all of it can be directed accordingly. I see now you commented on that issue. Also, to be clear, I’m still running the services in subdomains, but I’m trying to use [email protected] as the discovery account.






  • DNS is complicated and takes some time to really absorb. Places like Cloudflare make things very straight forward. It’s beat to think about what you want to accomplish, then start looking for guides on each of the individual pieces (authoritative server, master/slave replication, recursion, DNS over tls, dnssec, etc). Take it in baby steps and WRITE NOTES. The now taking will help you absorb the details and will leave you a paper trail of things when you get something running and then have to go deal with other life, then come back to it in a few months.


  • I have a pair of DO droplets doing nothing but primary/secondary chroot-bind. I have DDNS setup so my PFSense router updates the zone with the current IP address of my home setup and I handle all the DNS tasks (spf/dkim/dmarc/blah blah blah) there. I wrote a couple of scripts to handle zone signing and all that jazz so I don’t have to log in often, if ever.

    I’ll be replacing those with a modern os shortly, and probably adding recursion to them so I can use them to resolve personal DNS requests for all the machines on my domain (external and internal hosts).