it’s not just one thing though. For a non technical user, it’s nerve-wracking to worry that if you screw up the install, or download the wrong package, or configure the YAML wrong, or open the wrong port, or there’s a port conflict, or you forgot to update the software… now you’re potentially unprotected (even if that’s not the case - many will still worry).

Not to mention even if you - as I did - had to skill up to understand it, three months passes and you’re terrified to touch it because you’ve forgotten all the stuff you learned to set it up.

Same as how the majority of people don’t even change their own oil on their cars - even though it’s fairly easy.

wouldn’t the second pi have to be linked to the first?

I was trying to test to see how it worked inside and outside of docker.

I fucked something up and installed pihole and adguard at the same time both in a container and bare metal and received a massive load of error messages that after 2 hours of trying to unstick just formatted the SD card and started over. So then, installing and configuring ssh, fstab the external drive, set a static IP address on the pi took up all of my time so far.

Yes, I agree. Do you have any recommendations on courses / sites to look at?

yes - grew up in the 80s so witticisms like “4 bits is a nybble” are stuck in the brain.

Although it doesn’t seem relevant it’s actually pretty illuminating in what IP addresses are and do so thank you for that

that’s a helpful explanation of subnets thank you

In the paradigm of

111.222.3.4:5/22

if “3” is subnet and “5” is port - what are the names of “4”, “222”, “111”, and “22”?

And is there ever a 000.111.222.3.4:5/22 or another add on?

that’s a cool project, thank you for the suggestion

As more of an artist than a techie for the most part — if you have your medium or at least part of it — the more interesting thing about art is what you have to say about it.

As an example, if you want to draw a distinction and comparison between the age of discovery and the age of technology, you could use the hard drives as a canvas on which to paint a portrait of something like Robert Scott / Lawrence Oates, or Jacques Cousteau, or Armstrong and Aldrin etc.

On that last one - if you could tie the size of the drive in comparison to the size of the code used in the moon landing that might also be interesting.

Anyway, all that to say - art is a mix of medium and message

Traefik

I will look into this, thank you.

Check the error logs and see what’s wrong with it instead. How is it crashing? Did you check stdout and stderr (use docker attach or check the compose logs)?

“Crash” is the wrong word. The app is running, it says “Connected” for about 15-20 seconds, then it says “Internet blocked” for about 20 seconds, then it says “Reconnecting” for 30-90 seconds, repeat indefinitely.

Using the CLI for logging, it says something along the lines of “Timeout… Hyper time out”

You should look a bit into how the internet, DNS and IP addresses work on the public internet and private networks.

Do you have any recommendations on how to learn this?

Also, thank you for explaining that “configuring a domain name” is adding an A record. I’ve added TXT records and similar for Google analytics and I’ve added mail records to set up my own domain’s email before - but this is helpful, thanks.

yes, wlan vs eth, right? And then in some providers, tun for the vpn?

Thank you, this was really helpful.

I don’t know if I’ve configured the A records correctly - but someone else I was asking says that all this is against CloudFlare’s TOS so maybe I need to abandon CloudFlare completely.

The NGINX example will help when I start digging into that, thank you.

Yes, perhaps I over-simplified my gluetun example, I know it’s doing something in the container, but when I run the mullvad app it shows in green when it’s connected, and red when it’s not, and when the kill switch is engaged it shows “blocking internet” - how do I understand this same level of protection is active with a docker container? I think I read somewhere that I download something, then I docker pause gluetun and the download rate in qBittorrent should drop to near-zero to show it’s paused? Does that sound correct?

thank you so much for this considered reply. I’m just stepping out now, but will check in later to go through this in depth

ok. I would still like to learn this stuff, so hopefully someone can come in and answer some of the questions - but it seems like, then, the challenge is just gluetun for now.

Even if they are in separate rooms, they just have to be on the same network?