I've been a big fan of using Wireguard since I started using it at the beginning of this year.

Wireguard has the ability to scan a QR code to read the Wireguard tunnel configuration, which makes setting up a mobile device (phone, tablet, etc) much easier.

A QR code (Quick Response code) is a type of matrix barcode (or …

I have a Pi-hole Docker container running on my NAS, but DNS functionality is too important to have a single point of failure.

If something were to happen to my NAS, my home network would have no DNS resolution, which brings the network to it's knees.

I had been using a Raspberry Pi as my second DNS server, running …

Virtual machines (VM) and their KVM host can't communicate over the network, which is by design.

There are times however, that I want to enable VM to KVM host communication, typically because the KVM host is hosting something else I want to access from the VM..

The two ways of doing this, along with the pros and cons: …

I needed a quick SFTP server, and did a short post about it previously.

However, I wanted the ability to run a Docker container that wasn't on my NAS, so I had to mount the NFS share from within Docker.

Using this Docker composer file did the trick:

version: "3.2"

services:
  sftp:
    image: atmoz/sftp …

I had a couple of files I needed to provide to a friend on a regular basis.

• The files were too big to email.
• The files would change every week.
• They were created/stored on my NAS.
• Neither of us wanted to go through the hassle of using Dropbox/Google Drive/etc.

Simple solution was for me to create a simple Docker …

The purpose was to have a Linux box act as a simple router.

Devices:

• Device1, configured with a 10.10.10.10 IP.
• Device2, which will be our router, configured with 2 interfaces: 10.10.10.1 and 192.168.1.245.
• Device3, which is my Internet-facing router, with an internal IP of 192.168.1.1

The router is going to be …