2025-06-24T19:52:53Z https://njump.me Martin Pugh https://njump.me/npub16vrwjcmm9ejhrpmye687z060qukpatdqr8n2jmh3edf7vklf45tsdp48j8 https://media.bsd.network/accounts/avatars/000/023/677/original/555f9746935c6139.png https://media.bsd.network/accounts/avatars/000/023/677/original/555f9746935c6139.png https://njump.me/nevent1qqstfmeeft4537snphkdccc6t9hw7s0z0vmkzkkanycanq69y3gynqczyrfsd6tr0vhx2uv8vn8glcflfurjc84d5qv7d2tw78948ejmaxk3w4mqvh9 After what feels like months of procrastination, I&#39;ve finally rebuilt two of my OpenBSD servers that form part of my VPN infrastructure. When they were built, I opted for relatively small drives and that bit me in the arse with not enough space to upgrade. When I first deployed one of my third party hosted boxes, it had some weird install issues and one of the hosting techs had to do some magic and I was worried a rebuild would give me the same problem but I was overthinking things.<br/><br/>VPS drive increased in size and then a new install. I had a backup of the /etc config files and copying them back and restarting services worked like a charm.<br/><br/>I spent far longer reconfiguring the VPN links to clean up the config than I did replacing the two servers.<br/><br/>Thanks to the #OpenBSD devs for making everything so easy to work with. 2026-10-10T19:07:49Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsqxzf8q0h6c6w7k7wgfjltg4gdkzu25kjm3zsxrkfdxzq3t5nrg6qzyrfsd6tr0vhx2uv8vn8glcflfurjc84d5qv7d2tw78948ejmaxk3wy5z6hq What do the clever OpenBSD firewall folks use to put up a reasonable defence against known bad actors?<br/><br/>I have an SSH bastion host that gest spammed with connection attempts (it only accepts key authentication but even so...) as well as web server for my blog that gets requests for dot files, PHP, cpanel, etc...<br/><br/>On both I&#39;m currently running a shell script that greps the logs for keywords and feeds those IP&#39;s into a temporary blocklist but I&#39;m sure there must be a better way, plus some way to feed in a reputable source of bad IP&#39;s before they become a problem would be nice.<br/><br/>#OpenBSD #PF 2025-02-20T13:56:02Z https://njump.me/nevent1qqsrg3snzssuks9u7z585u0p6ze44vjay6sx93g0l4j300csrd5yxrqzyrfsd6tr0vhx2uv8vn8glcflfurjc84d5qv7d2tw78948ejmaxk3wjmvq3r Having watched a recent Smart Home Solver video about Home Assistant dynamic dashboards, I&#39;m having a rethink of what&#39;s actually useful to see. It&#39;s a never ending tinkering session...<br/><br/><a href="https://youtu.be/IYdr2CIu6oc?si=15ywzqMNb6X4ruqT">https://youtu.be/IYdr2CIu6oc?si=15ywzqMNb6X4ruqT</a><br/><br/>#HomeAssistant #SmartHome 2024-05-19T07:37:30Z