Category: software

  • homelab Pi‐hole

    Pi-hole should have been installed second. Unfortunately, it was near number 10 or so. Servers started arriving and I wanted to get them on the network. I also had not picked out a naming convention for the servers (ultimately decided to use Marvel characters) so setting up static IP addresses in DNS was mostly off…

  • homelab pfSense

    I chose pfSense as the firewall. Not claiming it was after some exhaustive search, it wasn’t. I know that there are other options, here are some of the reasons pfSense was selected. I do have a suggestion here, if you plan on deploying a standalone DNS/DHCP server make it the second software installed. I retrofit…