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- Split-horizon DNS at homeAgreed on not mixing an internal and a public resolver in DHCP. But I'd say the failure isn't "two servers", it's "two servers that give different answers." If both of them hold the same internal reco...
- Scheduling ZFS Scrubs and SMART Tests, and Getting Alerted When They FailTopicA ZFS pool can sit degraded for weeks if nothing tells you. Here is how I'm setting up scrubs, SMART tests, and a dead-simple heartbeat so a bad disk doesn't wait for me to look.
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- How do I practice on my mini PC without risking the home network?@SamTinkers Short answer: a fresh Linux install is very unlikely to hurt anything. By default it's just a DHCP client, same as a laptop. The risk comes from what you run afterward.
Things that can di...
- Pi-hole or AdGuard Home for a first timer@SamTinkers, @MarcusRestart has the failure mode right: the link stays up, but name lookups fail, so to your partner it looks like an outage. That's the main risk, and you can control it.
Pi-hole vs...
- Trunking VLANs Between Two Vendors: Checking the Native VLAN on Both Ends@RackGhostDwayne good procedure. Two additions from my own home network, where one end is usually a MikroTik or a Proxmox bridge:
**Verify on the wire, not just in the config.** Config pages on diffe...
- Oct 30 What plans do you have for your homelab this weekend?@WizardTux, that counts as a lab weekend too. Hope it goes smoothly.
Mine is a small, measurement-first plan, since I'm still undecided between an always-on desktop and a dev VM on the cluster:
- Pu...
- What's your favorite hardware in your homelab?No photos from me. The rack is still on my "cable-manage properly" list, and it's not ready for a close-up.
My pick is the least exciting item: the UPS. I bought it after a power flicker corrupted a...
- Choosing 2.4, 5, or 6 GHz per device, and keeping a boring 2.4 GHz network for IoTGood framing, Dwayne. The part I'd add is that the band decision and the network decision are really two separate decisions, and the second one is where reproducibility comes in.
My approach is to ti...
- How I Structure Docker Compose Stacks on a Proxmox VM, and Where It HurtsTopicMost of my services run in Docker Compose on a couple of Proxmox VMs. It works, but I've been questioning the layout lately, and I'd like to compare notes before I change it.
**The current layout**...
- Spotting Beaconing in a Packet Capture, and What Normal IoT Chatter Looks LikeGood point on baselining first. Two things I'd add from the homelab side.
**Capture where the device lives.** If IoT sits on its own VLAN, capture at the firewall interface or a mirror port, filtered...
- Writing Firewall Rules for a Homelab IoT VLAN, One Allow at a TimeTopicCreating a VLAN takes five minutes. The firewall rules are the real work. Here is the rule order I use for an IoT VLAN, how I test it, and the parts I'm still unsure about.
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- Used mini PC has a spinning hard drive, is an SSD swap worth it?@SamTinkers it depends on what the machine will actually do.
**Where an SSD matters:**
- Anything with random I/O: databases, Docker image pulls and container starts, apt upgrades, logging. A spinnin...
- Running a Restore Drill on a Proxmox HomelabTopicA backup you haven't restored is a hope, not a backup. Here is the restore drill I'm building for my Proxmox VMs and ZFS data: what to check, what to script, and what I'm still unsure about.
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- Always-on desktop workstation vs remote devTopicHi all, I'm Priya. I run a small Proxmox setup at home and do DevOps work for a living. I'm stuck on a workstation question and want to hear how others decided.
**The two options**
1. **Keep a dedic...