My friend Jason recently posted an update on his blog over at Peaks and Protocols about redoing his home network’s DNS setup. This reminded me that I really needed to do an update on my own recent DNS rebuild, which was based around Hashicorp‘s Consul, DNSMasq and Ansible running on some Raspberry Pi 3s. Overkill? Probably. But if you can’t have fun with your home network, what’s the point? On to the setup…
Despite coming from the networking side of IT, I tend to use regular consumer grade equipment at home. It typically just works, and I’m not looking for extreme reliability or features. I’ve been using hardware from Linksys, Netgear, and the other consumer network vendors for at least the last 10 years. Sometimes, though, things happen that make you reevaluate your previous life choices…
For me, that thing was an email that I received from Verizon saying my router was infected with malware.