Reversing the flow: from object storage back to the NAS
A free tier that makes a second copy structurally impossible, a backup that reverses direction because of it — and a sync client that had stopped working without ever saying so.
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inoticed: Detecting file changes on Linux servers without drowning in alerts
Monitoring changes on servers usually means too many alerts or too few. inoticed reports in real time, groups the noise and says plainly when it could not see everything.
Read more →Compiling WLED Yourself: A Hidden Feature and a Partition Table OTA Can't Touch
802.1X exists in WLED only behind a compile switch. Turn it on and you get an image that no longer fits the factory partition table — and OTA can do nothing about that.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 11: The Way In From Outside
WireGuard on the firewall. The question of which network a VPN client belongs to, one field with two meanings — and a service that does the same thing for every failure: nothing.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 10: Turning Networks Into Boundaries
A rule pattern for devices whose job is the internet — and three cases where it doesn't fit. Plus a television where I looked for the fault in entirely the wrong place.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 9: The Devices That Can't Do 802.1X
MAC Authentication Bypass with FreeRADIUS. A marker that doesn't exist, two MAC formats in the same request — and a configuration that did nothing for six weeks.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 8: Running My Own Certificate Authority
HTTPS on the internal network without browser warnings. With ACME, automatic renewal — and four faults that all sat on the return path.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 7: One SSID, and the Network Decides
802.1X with FreeRADIUS and dynamic VLAN assignment. Four dead ends, a config file that never gets read, and a device that should support it according to the release notes.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 6: Backups That Actually Work
Proxmox Backup Server on the NAS instead of the host it's meant to protect. Why that's the whole point — and why a backup only counts once you've restored it.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 5: The First VLAN
Telephony as the test case: a self-hosted phone system with two trunks, its own VLAN — and four failures that all looked the same and had entirely different causes.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 4: Somewhere for Services to Live
A used mini PC instead of containers on the NAS: why the virtualisation host gets its own box, and the rule I use to decide between VM and container.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 3: Sliding the Firewall In
How to put a firewall into a running network without it being down for days. With double NAT as a bridge, a MAC trap, and the day I reflashed the SD card twice.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 2: Hardware for the Firewall
10 Gbit, DPI, and what was left of that plan after I asked the forum. Why I ended up building an AM5 desktop instead.
Read more →Homelab Rebuild Part 1: Where I Started
One router, one network, everything in it. Why that stops being good enough — and why the fix is the same one companies use.
Read more →Matrix on trustserv, a Data-Friendly WhatsApp Alternative
How to register on my Matrix homeserver and get a client running.
Read more →Spam Abuse of the Mail Service
Someone registered several accounts and used them to send spam. Self-registration is closed.
Read more →Moving to Hugo!
trustserv has moved from WordPress to a static site generator. Say hello to Hugo!
Read more →Spam Filtering
I had to put a filter in place that scans incoming mail. Sorry — but there was a reason for it.
Read more →New SSL Certificates for Everyone!!11
Renewing my StartCom certificate turned into a bit of trouble with the mail service.
Read more →Happy New Year...
Welcome to trustserv — or: how I reinvented the wheel. :)
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