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Comment Re:Hahaha, fooled you! (Score 1) 90

You can, one software I know of is cloudflared, there may be others, but this was a simple RPM to install

    cloudflared-stable-linux-amd64.rpm

If you want it to configure is a daemon you can, but you can have it listen to local host on a different port /usr/local/bin/cloudflared proxy-dns --port 5353 then set bind, pihole, dnsmasq or whatever to use localhost:5353 as a forwarder. Running MS DNS or does your DNS server not work with a non port 53 server? Then have it listen on its interface

    sudo /usr/local/bin/cloudflared proxy-dns --address `hostname -I` --port 53 --upstream https://1.1.1.1/dns-query --upstream https://1.0.0.1/dns-query

Then point your forwarder to that machines IP.

Go ahead and test it with host, dig, or nslookup

    host -t SOA whatever.com IP.OF.THE.DNS

You should get a proper response.

What is nice is that you are running your own DNS server, so you should not have to reconfigure any of you machines that use your local DNS.

Comment Re: for those looking for the downside. (Score 1) 90

you can use bind, pihole, with DoH, you can even maintain an Internal dns. I use the cloudflared in DNS proxy mode and use that as the forwarding server. Internal DNS registration still works, and it is not avahi, broadcasts, or WINS.

Also a curious thing happened when I went away from UDP 53 resolution to TCP 443 resolution, queries got faster whether I used 1.1.1.1, 8.8.8.8, or my local ISP dns. I thought it would be slower using TCP

Comment Easy to see why people get stuck and don't see (Score 1) 1014

I know a kid who makes about $12 an hour, I told him if he does some Mail in rebates I have from Fry's he can have the rebates when they came in. I think he thought an hour of cutting UPC and filling out forms would was not worth the ~ $50 worth of rebates.

Whereas his younger brother was willing, but not sure he would have gotten it right.

Comment Re: "Not a good thing" (Score 1) 285

Under certain circumstances you can get rid of escrow and pay principle and interest monthly and Taxes and insurance twice a year. The interest in the escrow is yours.

I think you cannot have more than 80% of your loan to value of your home, good credit and it never went down more than 25 points for the past quarter.

There are some other requirements as well, but I think those are the big ones.

Comment Lines at the DMV (Score 1) 111

I renewed my tabs online and went to pick it up at an office once (my procrastination my fault), granted there are some transactions that can't be done online but I feel like a lot of people in the walk up line good have done their stuff online and just jumped in the Internet pickup line.

There seemed like there were 10 or 20 people in the walk up line whereas there were 3 off us in the Internet line. Maybe the digital divide exists and some just want to do it the old fashion way and wait in line.

Another similar thing was during the holidays for Santa picture taking, you could schedule online, then go to the Internet scheduled line which was pretty empty whereas the normal wait line seemed to be an hour or two.

Watching people surf on the phone while waiting in line rather than schedule online then jump in front seems weird to me. Maybe they want the full experience or feel that it is unfair to go ahead of everyone.

Comment Re:It's worse than that. (Score 1) 421

Depends on what you need and your location. I think the East coast has different prices from the West coast. Also some of the bundles are intro only, may make you wish you had just internet only after a year. also they get you on DVR rentals and such.

Also some places have alternate Internet means like Fios, DSL or can Tether via Smart Phone.

Then there are the ones that pay for business lines to avoid a cap.

Comment Used Routers a goldmine for passwords (Score 2) 234

I pick up the occasional used router and noticed it was pretty easy to recover the SSID, WPA2 password, and the admin password.

I did a presentation on this last month and it was well received. We got used routers from the local thrift store or electronics recycle, opened it up and hooked up to the UART serial console. Most of them boot you to a command prompt with no password. Then you can run "nvram show | grep pass" or wpa or admin and you will get the prior owner's SSID, and passwords.

There is a good chance that this person probably turned in this router after upgrading their router at home. It is probably unlikely they changed the Wifi passwords on all of their IoT, Web Cams, mobile devices, Blueray, laptop whatever at home. So just plug in the SSID to wigle net and you can go see what is on their webcam.

Comment Changing Definitions (Score 2) 131

Lines are getting blurred and definitions of things need to be rewritten.

Like how couple other bodies in our solar system were discovered and we had to redefine Pluto.

So maybe the chrome book is a "Dwarf PC", netbooks aren't really notebooks. Still my Wyse terminal has 4GB of RAM and dual boots to Windows 7 and Mint. Is it still just a terminal?

Definitions seem to matter though, it has real life implications in accounting and record keeping. For example, I can't claim my dog as a dependent but he depends on me.

Comment Re:After trying to sell phones... (Score 1) 176

I recall couple years ago Fry's didn't have some 10k resistors, I was shocked to find out RS did have em, I think it was $2 for 5, but I needed them so I could finish my project over the weekend, since then it looks like Frys realized there was a market for the DIY maker, and their selection of shields and components grew. Also I found a surplus spool of 10k resistors for $10 I don't think I will ever run out.

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