March 2022 – Room 322 Blog

A small homelab blog

Month: March 2022

Using Python for Dynamic DNS with optional Email Notification

On March 31, 2022May 25, 2024By dustin

If you host services at home, an ISP can ruin your day by suddenly changing your home IP address. Luckily, many DNS providers allow you to automatically update your records with them via an offering known as Dynamic DNS. My DNS provider, Google Domains, supports either a client or API option and offers instructions here. […]

Stopping IP Scanning with NGINX

On March 12, 2022March 12, 2022By dustin

Prior to putting a website online I could see that my firewall logs were filled with blocks from scanners attempting to hit my WAN IP via telnet, ssh, http, rdp, etc. However, once I opened up my firewall for http and https, I realized I had another brute force problem on my hands: scanners were […]