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How to force Dynamic DNS (DDNS) updates on a schedule at you pfSense

Posted on April 16, 2022April 16, 2022 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this short post I will describe how to force your DDNS service to periodically refresh your IP on your pfSense. In theory, that should never be needed because when your WAN IP changes, DDNS service should notice it and update your IP on demand. However, I have notice my IPSEC tunnel dropped because of…

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How to fix R3 CA/Certificate issue on pfSense (expired on September 29th, 2021)

Posted on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

On Wednesday, September 29th 2021 a widely used Certificate Authority from Let’s Encrypt expired and brought the world to its knee. Well, at least my homelab, anyways. The exact message would be something like “The following CA/Certificate entries are expiring: Certificate Authority: Acmecert: O=Let’s Encrypt, CN=Let’s Encrypt Authority R3, C=US” The fix is quite simple,…

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I am back, baby!

Posted on October 14, 2021October 14, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

After a couple months working on my new place, I am finally back. It look longer than anticipated, but the new homelab was fired up this weekend. I have managed to find a storage room to host my homelab and all data wires go through it just because… why not? lol This is how it…

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I will be back

Posted on July 27, 2021October 14, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

Folks, some of you may have noticed I am a little (not that little, but…) absent. The blog is still alive, though. I’ve moved to a new place and need some time to rewire my bat cave, bring the servers online and maybe even get some furniture lol I will be back soon and reply…

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Routing specific devices through your VPN gateway using pfSense

Posted on April 21, 2021October 18, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

While I was writing a post on how to route specific WEB traffic through VPN, I’ve got inspired and decided to another post on how to route specific devices (your NAS server, laptop, iPhone, etc) through your VPN while the rest of your house still use the old ISP gateway. This kind of approach might…

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Routing specific sites through your VPN gateway using pfSense

Posted on April 21, 2021October 18, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

For those who followed my previous post on how to configure a VPN client on pfSense, one cool application for it is to route only specific websites through the VPN while the rest of the traffic goes through your ISP gateway, as usual. That is interesting when you want to use an IP from another…

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Finding replacements for your Homelab online

Posted on April 3, 2021April 18, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

If you are like me, you probably got most of your gear at eBay, Facebook Marketplace, Craig’s List, OfferUp, etc. From time to time, things break or they come with missing parts. I don’t know about you, but I go a long way to make my Homelab as nit as possible. Recently I’ve acquired a…

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Configuring E-mail alerts on your Proxmox Virtual Environment

Posted on March 7, 2021April 19, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this post we are going to enable E-mail alerts for both our Proxmox Virtual Environment and Backup Server. The email server will be backed my GMail, which also works if you have Google Suite and a custom domain, such as mydomain.com! Although I have separate PBS and PVE configuration in two different sections, the…

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How to setup NFS on Synology NAS for Proxmox Backup Server to use as Datastore

Posted on March 7, 2021October 18, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

In this post we are going to configure a NFS share on our Synology NAS so that Proxmox Backup Server can use it as storage (aka Datastore) for all VMs and container backups. The first step is to configure NFS share on your Synology, then we need to mount the NFS share on the server…

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How to setup Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) community repository

Posted on March 6, 2021May 16, 2021 by Thiago Crepaldi

Recently I discovered Proxmox and learned about its Community vs Enterprise versions. As I am just getting started with it, I don’t want to commit with a paid version, but who knows when I finally get the hang of it. If you think like me, this post will describe how to configure Proxmox PBS package…

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