Internal DNS with NPM and PiHole and how to keep Cloudflare Tunnels from breaking For a long time to access a docker app on my home server, I had to remember which random port I assigned to it. 192.168.1.50:8080 for one app, port 3010 for another, and port 5678 for Read more
Mailgun SPF not Aligned I signed up for a free Mailgun account in order to send notifications from a self host Affine instance. Everything went rather smooth except for SPF which was not aligned, i.e. the IP address receiving mail servers see are not included in the SPF record. The Read more
Hacking a Cheap Temu WiFi Camera I recently got my hands on a cheap Temu WiFi camera made by Jooan. I figured I will attempt to hack this cheap Temu WiFi camera and stumbled upon an authentication bypass vulnerability. The vuln is pretty much because authentication verficiation is done client Read more
Mikrotik Wireguard I have a requirement to have a separate Wireless network that will by default route all traffic over Wireguard. I will be using Surfshark VPN. Step 1: Get a key pair from Surfshark for the Wireguard config Log onto Surfshark, click on VPN, then Router, then Wireguard, then Read more
Lancache and Pihole There doesn’t seem to be a single, simple, straight forward tutorial online that shows how to get Lancache and Pihole to work together. These are the URLs that I referenced to get this working. I’m just listing them here in case you want to read more, but Read more
Flash Tasmota on an ESP12f First we need to get our ESP12f into flashing mode. You will need a 10k resistor. You will also need an FTDI adapter. I used this tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyolY1OwSxc You also need an adapter plate if you decide to connect your ESP12f to a breadboard. It Read more
Mikrotik Wireless Channel – AC Wave 2- Extension channels In order to change the wireless channel (and thereforethe frequency) on Mikrotik, you must use the “center” channel: https://www.electronics-notes.com/articles/connectivity/wifi-ieee-802-11/channels-frequencies-bands-bandwidth.php This is especially true for Mikrotik routers using AC Wave 2 as it performs channel “bonding”. You also need to take into Read more
Mikrotik – Route WiFi over specific Interface Here is what my setup looks like with a bridge I dont want to use a bridge anymore But now I want a more advanced setup, so in other words I don’t want a bridge. I want to create a new WiFi interface Read more
Prevent devices from bypassing pihole (mikrotik) Thanks to this guy for this awesome post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pihole/comments/5g249i/tip_redirect_all_dns_to_pihole_with_mikrotik/ Basically, you need to do this: #Make sure all DNS goes to pihole IP address chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.88.110 protocol=udp src-address=!192.168.88.110 dst-address=!192.168.88.110 dst-port=53 chain=dstnat action=dst-nat to-addresses=192.168.88.110 protocol=tcp src-address=!192.168.88.110 dst-address=!192.168.1.2 dst-port=53 #Hairpin NAT #Masquerade router IP #These Read more
Squid transparent proxy on Mikrotik with single ETH interface Always wanted to set up a squid and squidguard transparent proxy on your Mikrotik router, and a raspberry pi? Then look no further! To get squid up and running on your PI, check out this guy on YouTube (3 parts). He Read more