A small homelab blog
2022 was the first year that I decided to save all the books I’ve read so that I could reflect on what I read. In total I read 38 books. I tried very hard this year to rotate between IT related books, leadership/ management, and novels. Here’s a photo of my 2022 stack: Here’s a […]
In studying for Cisco’s 350-901 DEVCOR Exam, I wanted to make sure I got some hands on practice with some of the objectives. Topic 3.1’s, objectives is: Construct API requests to implement chatops with Webex Teams API. I decided to look into creating a bot that would notify me about certain things going on around […]
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. […]
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 […]
I chose to take Cisco’s SAUTO exam to fulfill my specialty requirement while pursuing CCNP Security. The exam does not have an official certification guide and finding resources online was a challenge. The goal of this post is to share my experiences and the resources I used to help better prepare others who are interested […]
I have two raspberry pis that I use as DNS servers for my home network. The pis run dnsmasq and allow me to create custom internal records. In order to add a new DNS entry for my internal network I simply add a record to pi-53 and pi-153’s /etc/hosts file. When other devices on my […]
This is my first post. I plan to use this website to hone my security skills and share projects that I’ve worked on.
