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PiVPN, Static/Dynamic Server Names, and CloudFlare DNS – Part 4

By GeorgePosted on August 7, 2017August 7, 2017Posted in Guides, Tech, Net, and SolutionsTagged bash, CloudFlare, Configuration, Domain Name, Dynamic DNS, IP Address, OpenVPN, PiVPN, Raspberry Pi, scripting, Server, Static IP

As I build more and more Pi-based systems, I find the need to add management scripts for accessing SSH, OpenVPN, and all kinds of other tools. This leads me to version 4 of the CloudFlare Dynamic DNS AutoIP updater script. It’s now hosted on GitHub. Pulling off of GitHub: Cloudflare-Subdomain-AutoIP-Updater Create a private Dynamic DNS […]

PiVPN, Static/Dynamic Server Names, and CloudFlare DNS – Part 1

By GeorgePosted on July 27, 2016August 7, 2017Posted in Guides, Tech, Net, and SolutionsTagged bash, CloudFlare, Configuration, Domain Name, Dynamic DNS, IP Address, OpenVPN, PiVPN, Raspberry Pi, scripting, Server, Static IP

The last few days, I’ve been working on a vpn server for my home network. It’s so that my family all over the world can see the pictures of my son, which are hosted on a local server. However, I don’t want to expose those pictures to the world, hence the need for a vpn. While […]

PiVPN, Static/Dynamic Server Names, and CloudFlare DNS – Part 2

I talked about how to use PiVPN to set up an OpenVPN server on a Raspberry Pi at home previously, here and here. The next step for me was to use CloudFlare as a DNS server, instead of signing up for yet another internet service and having another login here or there to worry about. […]

PiVPN, Static/Dynamic Server Names, and CloudFlare DNS – Part 3

By GeorgePosted on December 28, 2016August 7, 2017Posted in Guides, Tech, Net, and SolutionsTagged bash, CloudFlare, Configuration, Domain Name, Dynamic DNS, IP Address, OpenVPN, PiVPN, Raspberry Pi, scripting, Server, Static IP

Before, I had written about a CloudFlare auto-ip-updating script, but it required a lot of user input and a lot of user effort. Luckily, or not, I crashed my OMV server, and I think an error ate up my PiVPN sd card. So I had to start all over! This time, I updated the CloudFlare […]

OpenVPN AutoLogin Script

By GeorgePosted on October 20, 2016October 20, 2016Posted in Reference, Tech, Net, and SolutionsTagged OpenVPN, Raspberry Pi, Run on Boot

The following is an OpenVPN autologin script for my portable Raspberry Pi Kodi media center. It starts an OpenVPN connection on boot. Dependencies The Expect package A folder containing an OpenVPN configuration file A folder for the script (I put it in the same OpenVPN folder) Script Creation sudo apt-get install expect sudo […]

Windows 10, VPN, and WiFi Refresh Errors

By GeorgePosted on July 26, 2016July 27, 2016Posted in Tech, Net, and SolutionsTagged OpenVPN, PritUNL, SecurePoint, VPN, WiFi, Windows 10

I’m currently working on a project where I set up a Raspberry Pi to host a VPN server so that I can let my extended family view some private pictures. I previously had a PritUNL server running on Digital Ocean with a remote mLab MongoDB server, but it didn’t seem to work too well, with […]