| #!/usr/bin/env python3.6 | |
| ''' | |
| Pihole is great, but the admin interface only displays device details | |
| by IP address which can be confusing. This script changes the display | |
| from IP address to a more recognizable hostname. And as a bonus, attaches | |
| the profile (from fingerbank.org) of the device to the hostname as well - | |
| so instead of something like 192.168.1.101, you see galaxys6-samsung. | |
| Shweet. | |
| Usage notes |
Calibre is a powerful cross-platform, open source, ebook manager and editing platform. Its calibre-server component can be used to publish an e-book library on a local network. While you can launch calibre-server as a desktop application, it can also be run as a daemon on a headless Linux server.
This tutorial on setting up calibre-server using Ubuntu 14.04 is very good, but dated.
This is a quick guide for setting up a kill switch using UFW (Uncomplicated FireWall). It is assumed you are using OpenVPN and optionally Network-Manager with network-manager-openvpn.
Before we can start we're going to need the IP address (or the IP addresses) of your VPN so that we can whitelist those later on, write them down. They are obviously going to be different for every VPN and VPNs with multiple servers, so I'll leave this up to you.
On some systems UFW is installed and enabled by default (Ubuntu, for example). Installation procedure is going to be different for every distribution of GNU/Linux, but it's usually something like