Ubuntu/Bespin

Step by Step Articles

All the setup involved for bespin, a Ubuntu 18.04 desktop server.

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Initial Setup - initial setup of the Ubuntu machine

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Gnome Setup - setting up gnome on the Ubuntu machine

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Ansible - setting up and running an Ansible role for the machine

• Ubuntu/Bespin/PIA - set up a PIA VPN tunnel using OpenVPN

• Ubuntu/Bespin/DNS - removing the built-in DNS server on Ubuntu and replacing it with dnsmasq

• Ubuntu/Bespin/PiHole - run an instance of PiHole, the DNS sinkhole, in a Docker container; install it between dnsmasq and the VPN tunnel, so all DNS queries will pass through the PiHole

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Iptables - Update the iptables rules to allow better protection of the server and be less permissive

• Ubuntu/Bespin/TIL - the summary of "today I learned" things that I learned while setting up Bespin

Related Articles

• Ubuntu/OpenVPN Server - set up an OpenVPN server on a Ubuntu machine (not running on bespin)

Old Irrelevant Articles

Articles that are no longer relevant to bespin but that may have useful information for some future project.

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Second AP Tunnel - this ended in failure, twice. short version: you can't have multiple simultaneous PIA tunnels in OpenVPN without significant extra configuration, so no need to go this above and beyond.

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Wifi Repeater - using bespin to run hostapd and make a wifi repeater

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Old/Wifi AP Setup set up a wireless AP to create/host a wifi hotspot on the machine

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Old/AP PIA Tunnel - route traffic from a wireless AP to a PIA VPN tunnel

• Ubuntu/Bespin/Old/Iptables - old iptables rules for things that aren't actually running on Bespin