Hiya!

Welcome to my blog, I’m Dylan. You can visit my main website here. This blog is mainly used as a braindump with the occasional useful tidbit about a project I’m working on.

Do keep in mind that I am not a professional writer and english isn’t my first language so grammar and spelling might go off the deep end.

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A brief introduction to Dylan

Originally I wanted to write seperate posts for this but one biggun is definitely the play here.

05 June 2023 路 Edited: 17 October 2023 路 7 min 路 1431 words

Proxmox installer hangs on 'Waiting for /dev to be fully populated'.

Nothing ever comes easy, does it? When I installed my home server the system went through its first POST correctly after a short period of self-discovery (at least I think that鈥檚 what rebooting thrice means). And Virtualization support was enabled out of the box. I flashed the Proxmox VE 7.2 ISO to a flash drive, and it booted from the flash drive straight away. All is happy in the world right?...

05 June 2023 路 Edited: 06 June 2023 路 2 min 路 400 words
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Dealing with forward zones and Dynamic DNS Updates in PowerDNS

Or how I鈥檓 using PowerDNS Authoritative Server, Recursor and dnsdist to manage and update internal domains while also supporting forward lookups.

10 February 2023 路 Edited: 06 June 2023 路 9 min 路 1875 words