<p>In the <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/12/27/building-an-openbsd-wireguard-server/">first part</a>, I described how I set up the basic OpenBSD WireGuard VPN server. I also hinted that I wanted to set up my own validating, filtering DNS server. With a little bit of spare time during the holidays I decided now was a good time as any.</p>

<p>In my <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/11/27/looks-like-i-get-to-redo-my-wireguard-vpn-server/">previous post</a>, I mentioned that I somehow ended up with a corrupted filesystem on the WireGuard server <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/01/21/setting-up-my-own-vpn-server-on-vultr-with-centos-7-and-wireguard/">I had set up earlier this year</a>. That iteration of my VPN server was built on Linux as I expected I would get better performance using the kernel-based…

<p>I’ve blogged about <a href="https://www.lonecpluspluscoder.com/2019/01/21/setting-up-my-own-vpn-server-on-vultr-with-centos-7-and-wireguard/">setting up a WireGuard VPN server</a> earlier this year. It’s been running well since, but I needed to take care of some overdue maintenance tasks. Trying to log into the server this morning and I am greeted with “no route to host”. Eh? A quick check on my Vultr UI showed that the VPS had trouble booting. The error suggests a…

<p>I like Lispy languages. One I’ve been playing with – and occasionally been using for smaller projects – is <a href="https://clojure.org/">Clojure</a>. Clojure projects usually use <a href="https://leiningen.org/">Leiningen</a> for their build system. There are generally two ways to install leiningen – just download the script as per the Leiningen web site, or use the OS package manager. I usually prefer using the OS package manager, but Manjaro doesn’t include leiningen as a package in its…

<p>macOS Time Machine is usually set up to work in the background and not overly affect anything that’s going on in the foreground while the user is working. Under normal circumstances, this is desirable behaviour. It is not desirable when you try to take one last backup of a failing SSD before it keels over completely. Which was the unfortunate situation I found myself in.</p>