Today I connected back to my irc bouncer znc with the terminal irc client irssi. I had the configuration with my self-signed certificate and certificate pinning already figured out in the past, but that configuration file was on a different computer. And I’m currently travelling, so I didn’t have access to it and, more importantly, I did not save the configuration to my dotfiles or anywhere else where I could easily look it up.
If you don’t know about the Helios4, you can read about it here. First of all, during benchmarking a lot of things can go wrong (I really recommend watching these 5 mintues of a lightning talk about benchmarking). Hence, take the results with a grain of salt. While I’m not doing any fancy calculations here, I am still not an expert. During the tests the Helios was always idle, or, at least, I did not do anything else.
The goal is to be able to send RAID alerts from my Helios4 to my email address and because my personal IP address provided by my ISP is on a default blocklist and therefore not allowed to send mail, I quickly created a workaround. I already use a VPS, which is set up to send mail, so I figured I just need to connect my Helios4 to my VPS and tell the server to send the email instead.
I have a raspberry pi which is running pihole and some other things and I want to be able to connect to it from wherever I am without exposing it directly to the internet. So, I thought I could make this possible with an SSH connection form my raspberry pi to my VPS and, at the same time, forwarding the SSH port. Then I can use my VPS as a jumphost by connecting to the VPS and then to the forwarded SSH port from pi.