December 2020 Rx/Tx

Receive and transmit for December. If pressed for time, Bert Hubert's historical account of PowerDNS is a great read, and I found the Days of Rage article enlightening.

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June Rx/Tx


L2TP IPSec VPN with npppd on OpenBSD

Introduction

If you're even slightly security- or privacy-conscious, which in the present era of Big Data and tech oligarchs is a provident predilection, you should, if not already, be using a VPN (Virtual Private Network). And I don't mean one of the oft-advertised commercial offerings you see plastered about social media—but one that you control. Where every outgoing request that leaves your computer is tunneled through an encrypted private network owned and operated by you. Fortunately, the …

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