Network IP Standards

Standards are great because there’s so many to choose from! For the Digilan network, because this is really such a loose collection of homes and most of the homes do not need the added complexity of the Class A network we’re using the old fashioned Class C 192.168.0.0.  Because my favorite number is 7, and I didn’t know what I […]

All tucked in

  The reorganized rack is all tucked in.  This rack serves the home with some important services, and with this most recent organization I think there are some good things going on here.  At the top of the rack is a patch panel that has 24 ports going all over the house, though to be honest most of them are in […]

Computer Racking

I have an older Lenovo computer that I have turned into a ESXi host for a domain controller, but the trouble was I didn’t have any room in the rack under the stairs.  or so I thought.     This Before photo does suggest there is some room left for the ‘new server’ but I had to do some re-arranging. […]

Starting Fresh

An misbehaving docker container brought the Digilan empire to a standstill.  Well, not really.  But this is a way to start fresh.  After I had already burned the whole thing to the ground I realized my error – I had set docker to have the same network as the synology.  Turns out you can’t have two things on the same […]