Afternoon y’all, apologies if this is brief writing this in a rush expect an edit/update.

My question is in regard to port forwarding & web hosting, I’ve forwarded port 80, 8080 & 443 from my router and my reverse proxy (traefik) is able to receive the necessary SSL/TLS certificates however, my domain is only accessible locally or via WireGuard tunnels and not the World Wide Web (which is good!) however, I can’t seem to figure out what’s preventing it from being accessible to the WWW.

My registrar is cloudflare so i figured changing my DNS or at least pushing some queries to my cloudflare nameservers would at least do something but have had no luck. For the most part I’ve been using Quad9 behind PiHole for DNS, tried using Unbound however it was a complete mess to setup.

Must end this post here - will update with more info ASAP!

Long story short, my bank/credit-union doesn’t support debit-visa and the only way I can make online payments through my bank account is via PayPal.

PayPal is a pain in the ass to work with and I would like to use Privacy.com’s virtual debit/credit cards however, they lack support for banks/credit-unions outside the US.

Note: I like to use my CC as less as possible hence why I use my bank for majority of my online payments.

Currently have nice long docker compose file that hosts my PiHole V6 container (along with a bunch of other containers) however, reason i ask this question is because whenever I go to pull an updated image and recreate the container I experience about 20 minutes of no DNS resolution which to my knowledge is due to the NTP clock being out of sync.

What’s the best way to host a DNS sinkhole/resolver that can mitigate this issue?

Was thinking of utilizing Proxmox & LXC but I suspect I’ll get the same experience.

~~Update: Turns out PiHole doesn’t support two instances, I got both of them on separate devices also set the 2nd DNS server in my routers WAN & LAN DNS settings which did in fact split DNS between both instances however, I lost access to my routers web-ui, my Traefik instance & reverse proxies died and I lost all internet access.~~

~~So, don’t do what I did.~~

Update 2: So everything I said in my first update let’s disregard that, turns out I had my router forcing all DNS to PiHole server 1 which caused my issues mentioned above.

Two servers appears to work!

Good afternoon y'all.

I recently installed Steam on a laptop running a fresh install of Debian 12 & KDE Plasma. I've done this dance numerous times on other hardware however, this time when installing games through Steam they hang at 100% Downloaded & Installed and only complete when i pause them, one occasion two games simply wouldn't install and took me a full day fighting with Steam to finish them and clear the queue.

Steam can't seem to move files between drives (note: one drive is an SSD and the other is an HDD) or uninstall files and i assumed this was a permissions issue at first however, comparing the directory permissions from the laptop to my desktop (also running Debian 12 & KDE Plasma) i see nothing out of the ordinary.

Any suggestions are appreciated - Some things I've already tried.

• Purged steam from the system (including ~/.steam)
• Cleared 'Download Cache' in Steam settings
• chown & chmod (777) the common directories (~/.steam/steamapps/common)
• Waited numerous hours assuming the HDD was ridiculously slow - moving/deleting files in the CLi shell works without issue!
• Tried different download regions/countries

So recently I just come across Earlyoom and it has completely resolved my desktop crashing and better handles my memory, I was wondering if there is any other software that I’m missing that could potentially improve my systems resource handling?

Distro = Debian 12, KDE Plasma 5