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> "good small old red wooden English book" have to come in that order or it sounds very peculiar.

Interesting. As a native English speaker (from the US), I'd say that "good small old" felt a little awkward for me to say out loud. Personally, I'd probably say "good old small ...", but to your point, there isn't exactly a "right" answer, just one that sounds right. I'm assuming you're also a native English speaker from the UK, so maybe we've discovered a funky difference between the English in our two countries. It would be a fun study to give native English speakers a list of those adjectives, and the noun "book", and tell them to order them.

- ubiquiti edge router x from ~2019.. there's a bash script on the box for updating the blocklist, the rest of the configuration can be done in the GUI

- pihole and unbound are running in a VM on an old intel NUC with an i5 and 18GB of RAM. The NUC is running Proxmox, and is connected to the edgerouter over ethernet

- Separately, there's a ubiquiti WAP and a standalone modem, but there's nothing special about their configuration

Yes, the re-writes are done on a ubiquiti edge router. The re-write rules count the number of hits, as well as basic connection details like src port/addess, dst port/address, protocol. The biggest offender is the roku, which tries to use 8.8.8.8

edit: to be honest though, I don't look at the logs often to see what else gets caught, or why

Devices -> Pi-Hole -> Unbound -> DnsCrypt

Some additional details:

- Outbound internet access over port 53 is blocked for everything on the network, other than the Pi-Hole/Unbound server

- IpTables rule in place to force all outbound traffic over port 53 to go thru the Pi-Hole. This prevents devices from circumventing the Pi-Hole filtering by hard-coding public DNS servers

- Cronjob that polls http://public-dns.info/nameservers-all.txt regularly, and updates an IpTables rule to block all outbound internet traffic over any port/protocol to servers in that list. This is my attempt to block things that try to circumvent DNS filtering by doing DNS over HTTPS

- Unbound makes it possible to bypass DnsCrypt for specific zones, as needed. It also is configured to prefetch records before expiration, which generally eliminates the latency introduced by DnsCrypt

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This is overkill, but I tried to address privacy concerns as well as ad-blocking with this setup, and it's also been fun to tinker with

Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

What's stopping you from running your own registry? Or keeping images on a build machine and moving them around with some file sharing mechanism? You don't need a docker account to pull public images from dockerhub, and you don't _have_ to push your images to dockerhub

you seem to be a big proponent of ansible-pull. are any of your use cases/implementations publicly available, I'm really interested to see how people are using ansible-pull in production.

I'd like to do something similar, currently we use a mix of ansible tower (which I don't love) and ansible runs from local machines to manage the infrastructure. I'd rather it all be tied into terraform though, so that we have a single place to manage changes from

> All this with a single command from my computer without the need of anything else! =P

This is my primary problem with ansible. I find that it's been really great for managing things from my local machine, but that model breaks down a little once you have a medium / largish fleet of machines in some cloud provider's space. On top of that, if you have strict security boundaries between different environments/resources, then running ansible scripts that touch a ton of machines becomes more of an exercise in key management than anything else. I know that there are tools out there like AWX and rundeck, which wrap a lot of ansible functionality, but I've found the push model to be a little hard to manage at scale.

We're using ansible almost exclusively for config mgmt tasks, and I'd like to find a way to make it work better for us, but the agent model used by puppet/chef/salt sounds really appealing, especially when I want to role a change out to a large set of machines

this is the first time I've heard of airtable. It looks sort of neat. I'm curious if it's a thing you use for personal organization or if it;s something you use for work?