Trey Blancher - discursions

Arch Linux-based Home Router, Part VI (dynamic DNS client)

5 months ago 3 min read Arch Linux router Networking DDNS Dynamic DNS

Unless you have a static IPv4 address with your ISP, it is likely that your WAN IPv4 address will change at some point. If you want to be able to access your home

Arch Linux-based Home Router, Part V (bind)

5 months ago 7 min read Arch Linux router Networking DNS BIND

Having a caching Domain Name System [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Name_System] (DNS) daemon is not a hard requirement for a home router, but most commercial routers have some caching DNS

Arch Linux-based Home Router, Part IV (dhcpd)

5 months ago 5 min read Arch Linux router Networking terminal dhcp dhcpd

Most off-the-shelf home routers contain a DHCP [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#DHCP] (Dynamic Host Control Protocol) server, to assign IP addresses on your network. Your ISP likely has a DHCP

Arch Linux-based Home Router, Part III (firewalld configuration)

5 months ago 8 min read Arch Linux router Networking firewalld

Configuring the firewall is of utmost importance in protecting your network! There are many options for setting up the firewall. The venerable iptables [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iptables] is now deprecated by

Arch Linux-based Home Router, Part II (systemd and sysctl/kernel configuration)

5 months ago 9 min read Arch Linux router Networking systemd kernel

This is the second post in my Arch Linux-based Home Router series. This article covers my systemd-networkd [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Systemd-networkd] and sysctl/kernel [https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sysctl] configuration.