https://thedigitaldown.com/tags/networking/ Recent content in Networking on thedigitaldown.com Hugo en Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thedigitaldown.com/posts/how-i-used-noip-sevices/ Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thedigitaldown.com/posts/how-i-used-noip-sevices/ <h2 id="what-this-is"> What This Is <a class="heading-link" href="#what-this-is"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>I use <strong>NO-IP Dynamic DNS (DDNS)</strong> to give my home lab a stable hostname, even though my public IP changes.</p> <p>Instead of chasing a changing IP address, I use:</p> <p><strong>echobase.ditchyourip.com</strong></p> <hr> <h2 id="why-it-matters"> Why It Matters <a class="heading-link" href="#why-it-matters"> <i class="fa-solid fa-link" aria-hidden="true" title="Link to heading"></i> <span class="sr-only">Link to heading</span> </a> </h2> <p>Most residential internet connections don’t have a static public IP.<br> That means your external IP can change at any time.</p> https://thedigitaldown.com/posts/building-my-homelab-truenas-proxmox-10gbe/ Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://thedigitaldown.com/posts/building-my-homelab-truenas-proxmox-10gbe/ <p>I&rsquo;ve been running a single Proxmox node at home for a while now — good enough to spin up VMs, mess around with things, break things, fix them. But it&rsquo;s always bothered me that everything was sitting on local storage with no shared backend, no live migration, no HA. Basically a very expensive way to run a few VMs.</p> <p>So I decided to fix that. The goal: build a TrueNAS SCALE server, connect it to my Proxmox environment over a dedicated 10GbE storage fabric, migrate all my VMs off local storage, and then eventually stand up a second Proxmox node and form a proper cluster. This is part one — getting the network fabric up and the storage interfaces configured.</p>