A step-by-step guide to moving my domain registration from WordPress.com to Porkbun, motivated by my unease over recent WordPress drama. I cover the transfer process—including a required 60-day wait, disabling the transfer lock, and a gotcha where private registration had to be turned off before the authorization code would work—plus copying DNS records and switching nameservers. In a closing update, I note that WordPress later blocked external domain pointing, pushing me toward self-hosting...
While setting up an Ubuntu 20.04 LXC on Proxmox to run a TP-Link Omada controller, I found DNS resolution failing because Proxmox copies the host’s Tailscale-based resolv.conf into containers, and the container has no route to the Tailscale DNS address. In this post, I cover the diagnosis of why Debian templates behaved differently, plus two fixes: specifying DNS explicitly in the Proxmox GUI, or creating a .pve-ignore.resolv.conf file so Proxmox stops overwriting the container’s settings...
A short guide to using Pi-hole’s Local DNS Records feature to assign friendly hostnames to devices on a home network, so tools like SSH can be used with names instead of IP addresses. I also briefly mention using Pi-hole’s domain blocking to discourage late-night Reddit browsing...
