Nginx

Fixing Hung Nginx Workers

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While cleaning up some tech debt, a curious issue cropped up. Nginx was running in an alpine container as a front end load balancer. It had a dynamic config …

Run Your Own DNS-over-TLS Server

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DNS-over-TLS is a relatively new privacy enhancing protocol that encrypts all of your DNS requests to a trusted server. In an age when airports, and coffee …

Weird CloudFlare Behavior

2 min read

While working on a replacement webserver, I encountered some odd behavior which took a bit to track down to CloudFlare. This isn't a bug or an issue with …