So I decided to give the unifi controller a shot on running on OpenBSD and most importantly the plan was to run it alongside all the other daemons on the system, so I don’t need to have a seperate VM / machine running just for the unifi controller. Spoiler: while I was able to get the unifi …

At my day job I often have to resolve a MAC address to a vendor. Since a while I was using https://hwaddr.com but always had 2 gripes with the service they provide:

1. too much advertisements
2. can’t use it from the CLI

so I decided to embark on a journey to create my own site to give me a …

Ever since dywis0r made me aware of netbox I was planning on getting my hands dirty with it. But only after looking loads of videos on the topic and after being `forced’ to use it at work has I been able to finally get enough momentum going to start the journey for myself.

At the beginning of …

Lately problems emerged with my self hosted Unifi network controller which I had been running on a Raspberry Pi. Mainly I suffered from a missing admin collection in the underlying MongoDB which rendered my controller unmaintainable as I was unable to login to the system. Further investigation …

Update: Added some remarks about what DNS RPZ actually is, what my objective is and what the outcome will be.

A friend of mine and I tried to play w/ RPZ and knot yesterday and gravely failed. The fact that knot as well as RPZ had been new to us didn’t help. Discussing the failure later that …

I came up with the idea to utilize Open Source Threat Feeds, or OSINT on my private setup and quickly cooked up the shell script below in a rough, first try. The funny thing is that I more or less instantantly got hits from the 5346 IP addresses in the table:

@0 block drop log quick from …

Update: I have corrected chown www /var/www/data to be chown www /var/www/rainloop/data in getting rainloop ready to rock

• installing php and php-curl (and unzip)

    pkg_add -i php php-curl unzip
  

• getting rainloop ready to rock

    mkdir /var/www/rainloop
    unzip ~/rainloop-community-latest.zip -d …