https://shrirangkahale.com/Recent content on Shrirang KahaleHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usSun, 11 May 2025 09:43:19 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/encrypted-adns/Sun, 11 May 2025 09:43:19 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/encrypted-adns/Internet as we know today, emerged from ARPANET, which was a research network made by the US DoD. Technologies like TCP/IP formed the basis of ARPANET, being the the first network to use IP based communication. ARPANET was eventually dissolved, but new networks were formed and with growing ideas and technology, The Internet was born. People to this date are reminiscent about the days of the dot-com bubble which was a period of rapid internet growth.https://shrirangkahale.com/donate/Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/donate/I run a non-profit FOSS mirror service which serves thousands of people daily. India is a vast country, and with increasing popularity of FOSS more and more mirrors are needed, when compared to other countries we have very few mirrors. We are working to improve the situation. Currently we have a mirror node in three cities in India. Nagpur, Mumbai and Chennai. We are working on deploying another mirror node in Hyderabad.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/thinking/Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:49:50 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/thinking/It’s late, I am sitting in my chair with my laptop in my lap, a drizzle of rain is falling outside and I can hear constant plunk plunk plunk sounds of the rain hitting the floor, a cool breeze is running through my room. A table fan is running pointing away from myself because otherwise it feels too cold. I sit while I think about the world around me. That’s what I do when I am bored, I marvel about the world, it’s enormity and beauty.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/living-offgrid/Fri, 14 Jun 2024 09:19:34 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/living-offgrid/Infrastructure is fascinating, atleast to me. Recently I have been reading up about the infrastructure required for research at The South Pole. A lot of the things which we take for granted while we carry out our daily lives are not readily available there. The average annual temperature is around -49°C which means that water in liquid form is not available. What they have to do instead is pump heated water to a structure which is called Rodwell which forms an underground lake of water, heated water is continuously pumped to this through insulated pipes to ensure that it does not freeze.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/dying-excitement-of-festivals/Sat, 06 Apr 2024 13:09:55 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/dying-excitement-of-festivals/I don’t know why but since 2020 (COVID era) festivals don’t feel the same anymore. I had the excitement and would eagerly wait for Holi (and other festivals) before. Maybe it’s because I have grown up? But that doesn’t explain why others feel the same. Somehow I think this is related with the growth of short form content on the Internet like Instagram Reels and Tiktok. People are busy scrolling and the algorithm is busy feeding them, the cycle continues.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/education-system-and-youth/Wed, 30 Aug 2023 14:20:07 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/education-system-and-youth/I write this as when India has successfully landed and is carrying out it’s Chandrayan-3 mission. This is a very proud moment for each and every Indian. India has become the first country to land on Moon’s South Pole, I’d like to congratulate all the people who were involved in this mission! Anyway, I stumbled upon this old essay from 1999, titled “INDIAN TALENT CAUGHT IN THE COBWEBS”, It mentions how Indian society in general resists change.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/insider-threat/Wed, 21 Jun 2023 13:00:50 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/insider-threat/What exactly are Insider Threats? An insider threat is a perceived threat to an organization that comes from people within the organization, such as employees, former employees, contractors or business associates, who have inside information concerning the organization’s security practices, data and computer systems. The threat may involve fraud, the theft of confidential or commercially valuable information, the theft of intellectual property, or the sabotage of computer systems. Think of it like this: Let’s say some organisation has a super secure facility, with huge perimeter walls, barbed wires, cameras everywhere.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/learning-journey/Sat, 06 May 2023 18:29:57 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/learning-journey/Yesterday, I was just sitting and thinking about my time spent in COVID lockdowns. It was a harsh period for the whole world. It was a terrible year for everyone, millions of people died. While all my friends were stuck inside their homes playing video games, watching movies and doing other things. I wanted to do something productive. I was 13 years old at that time. That reminds me of this quote from the Harry Potter books: “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.https://shrirangkahale.com/about/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/about/I’m a 19 y/o who has a strong interest in Networking, DevOps, Aviation, RF and technology in general. I’m also experienced in working with Linux-based servers and enjoy tinkering with them to improve my skills. I am a believer of the free software philosophy and I contribute to FOSS by hosting a distributed mirror service (mirror.albony.in) which serves more than 20TB of traffic per day. I go by the alias “albony” / “albonycal” on the internet.https://shrirangkahale.com/contact/Sat, 06 May 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/contact/You can contact me via any of the following ways: Email: me@shrirangkahale.com Twitter: twitter.com/albonycal Telegram: @shrirangkahale Mastodon: @albonycal@fosstodon.org Discord: @albony or Albony#1335 Matrix: @albonycal:matrix.org Signal: shrirangkahale.1337 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/shrirangkahalehttps://shrirangkahale.com/posts/airtel_vi_routing/Mon, 01 May 2023 09:53:15 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/airtel_vi_routing/Even though Bharti Airtel (AS9498) is an upstream of Vodafone Idea (Vi) the routing between the two ISPs is consistently bad. While this heavily affects P2P traffic, it also has other impacts. ➜ VoWiFi (Voice Over WiFi) is very useful for places which have poor cellular coverage, But due to the horrible routing between the two ISPs the VoWiFi experience is bad. When I use VoWiFi (Vi SIM) on Airtel Broadband connection, there are constant call drops and stuttering.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/termux-armbian/Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:19:31 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/termux-armbian/Termux mirror.albony.xyz/termux Its added to the termux mirrorlist so you should get it automatically soon, if you want to add it manually: termux-change-repo (part of termux-tools package) can be used to modify sources. Another way of doing it is by using apt edit-sources and adding the following lines: # main deb https://mirror.albony.xyz/termux/termux-main stable main # root deb https://mirror.albony.xyz/termux/termux-root root stable # X11 deb https://mirror.albony.xyz/termux/termux-x11 x11 main Armbian mirror.albony.xyz/armbian This is also added to the armbian mirrorlist but you can also add it manually by editing the sources.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/albony-mirror/Fri, 24 Jun 2022 16:35:04 +0000https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/albony-mirror/mirror.albony.xyz Currently mirroring 11 repositories. (archlinux, endeavouros, linuxmint, artixlinux, cachylinux, fdroid, manjaro, armbian, termux, blackarch and chaotic-aur) This mirror has 1Gbits/s bandwidth and it’s hosted in Nagpur, India. I get more than 14TB in traffic and more than 14 Million requests per month, and around 2TB every week, sometimes even more. You can support me by donating at: https://mirror.albony.xyz/donate.html Via BTC or buymecoffeehttps://shrirangkahale.com/posts/apt-ipv6/Mon, 16 May 2022 15:12:24 +0530https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/apt-ipv6/The Problem when I did sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I noticed that it was trying to connect to the ubuntu mirror over IPv6 (and failing) My ISP hasn’t enabled IPv6 for me, so I can’t connect over IPv6. and I don’t have any IPv6 DNS servers. But still apt was trying to connect over IPv6… weird… The Fix You can create a file in the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d directory to force apt to use IPv4 echo 'Acquire::ForceIPv4 "true";' | sudo tee /etc/apt/apt.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/proxmox-discord/Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:12:24 +0530https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/proxmox-discord/How to make proxmox UI beautiful I use proxmox daily for virtual machines and LCX containers, It is one of the best virtual machince platform that utilizes KVM And it’s FOSS but the default UI is too bright and I prefer darker themes Discord-PVE Discord-PVE is a discord theme for the proxmox virtual environment it uses custom stylesheet. To Install it: run this oneliner bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Weilbyte/PVEDiscordDark/master/PVEDiscordDark.sh ) install This looks soo much better https://github.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/dns-docker/Fri, 10 Dec 2021 15:12:24 +0530https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/dns-docker/Setting DNS in a docker environment I have a DNS resolver running on my homeserver (adguard home) which also acts as an adblocker. But the host firewall is configured to only accept traffic from my home LAN (10.0.1.0/24) The containers meanwhile are isolated and do not share the same IP range as my LAN, this leads to DNS queries failing inside the containers. I have noticed that all my containers default to 8.https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/whoogle-1/Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:12:24 +0530https://shrirangkahale.com/posts/whoogle-1/What is whoogle ? Whoogle is a privacy friendly (meta) search engine. It uses google for it’s data but without any ads, javascript, AMP links, cookies, or IP address tracking. It’s Free and opensource software. Why use whoogle? If you didn’t knew, a great chunk of google’s revenue comes from ads and tracking. They use their services to gather user’s private data and use it for their own benefit, privacy is extremely important.