adelorenzo – Adolfo Delorenzo

Unbound DNS with ad-blocking

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by adelorenzo

For those who want to try a different approach to a selfhosted DNS with ad- blocking Unbound can be a good alternative. I’ve been using Pihole for some time now but was not quite 100% happy with its performance. I use a dedicated Odroid XU4 SBC as my main DNS machine and DHCP server and […]

Second internal DNS server config for Pi-Hole

Posted on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 by adelorenzo

For those that like me use Pi-Hole as the DHCP server there is a quick and quite easy way to add a second DNS to the settings that are sent to network clients. Pi-Hole is based on dnsmasq and therefore you can tweak your DNS needs on your internal network for specific situations. In my […]

Easy storage expansion with mergerfs & bind

Posted on February 2, 2020February 3, 2020 by adelorenzo

So this is a nice easy trick I use to expand my storage on Linux in two major steps. Pre-req is to run this as root. mergerfs mergerfs is a unionfs filesystem that allows you to add disks to a pool under a directory that is seen as one disk on a given mountpoint. In […]

Simple-PHP-GPIO

Posted on February 1, 2020February 2, 2020 by adelorenzo

Control GPIO modules connected to a Raspberry Pi via PHP This a very simple PHP scritp I wrote to control my bedside lamp with a relay module connected to a Raspberry Pi and my cell phone. It is very straight forward and simple to use. Requirements Software sudo apt-get install lighttpd php Yup, that simple. […]