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Home-Lab Environment

Environment Documentation

I have standardized your domain listings into a clean table, removed the empty unassigned IP rows to reduce clutter (while keeping your standard sequential block visible), and extracted the miscellaneous Windows 10 license key into a dedicated, secure metadata section so it doesn't skew your networking tables.

Home-Lab Environment Documentation

1. Public Domains & External Servers

This table tracks external public-facing domains, their current A-record IP destinations, and hosting providers.

Domain Name	Target IP Address	Host / Provider	Status / Notes
`mcfetridge.us`	129.213.86.62	Oracle Server	Active
`mikemcfetridge.com`	75.152.47.1	Home	Active
`mmcfetridge.net`	216.144.227.142	RackNerd Server	Active
`mmcfetridge.xyz`	107.175.245.171	N/A	Deprecated / Not used anymore

2. Local IP Asset Management (Subnet: `192.168.2.0/24`)

This mapping tracks internal static IPs, infrastructure hosts, container stacks, and active client hardware.

Infrastructure & Server Hosts

IP Address	Server Name	Applications	Functional Comments
192.168.2.1	PVE	Proxmox	Main Proxmox Virtualization Environment
192.168.2.2	PVE2	Proxmox	Secondary Proxmox Node (Cluster/Failover)
192.168.2.3	docker-prod-01	Docker	Production Docker environment
192.168.2.4	pangolin	None Listed	Assigned host
192.168.2.5	Domain Locker	Docker Monitoring	Container ecosystem tracking & monitoring

Network Services & Core Stacks

IP Address	Server Name	Applications	Functional Comments
192.168.2.8	Pi-Hole	Ad-blocking / DNS	Network-wide ad blocker
192.168.2.9	TECHNITIUMDNS-SERVER	DNS	Local authoritative DNS Server
192.168.2.10	ArrStack	Media Management	Automation stack
192.168.2.12	linkwarden	lw	Web bookmark and internet link management
192.168.2.15	docker-deploy	CI/CD Deployer	Dedicated environment for deployments
192.168.2.19	VAULTWARDEN-SERVER	Passwords	Self-hosted Bitwarden backend (Password Server)

End-User Devices & Client Leases

IP Address	Device Name	Device Type	Functional Comments
192.168.2.248	My iPad	Tablet	Personal client
192.168.2.249	My Laptop	Laptop	Primary workstation

💡 Note: IP addresses 192.168.2.6 through 192.168.2.7, 192.168.2.11, 192.168.2.13 through 192.168.2.14, 192.168.2.16 through 192.168.2.18, and 192.168.2.20 through 192.168.2.30 are currently unassigned and reserved for future static scaling.

3. Network Security & Trusted Subnets (CIDR)

The following blocks are designated as Trusted IP CIDRs within internal firewall and reverse proxy definitions.

127.0.0.0/8 — Localhost loopback network
10.0.0.0/8 — Class A Private network space
172.16.0.0/12 — Class B Private network space (Commonly used by internal Docker bridges)
192.168.0.0/22 — Covers local scopes from 192.168.0.0 through 192.168.3.255

4. Environment Metadata & Licenses

🔑 Windows 10 Pro Generic KMS / Setup Key: > W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX

🌐 Configuring Dynamic DNS (DDNS) with ddclient and Namecheap

This guide walks you through installing and configuring ddclient on Ubuntu to automatically update your Namecheap domain with your network's public IP address.

1. Installation

Install the ddclient utility from the standard package manager:

Bash

``` sudo apt update && sudo apt install ddclient -y


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## 2. Configuration

Open the configuration file using the `nano` text editor:

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sudo nano /etc/ddclient.conf

Completely clear any auto-generated text and replace it with the following clean, accurate configuration block for Namecheap:

Ini, TOML

``` # Configuration for Namecheap Dynamic DNS protocol=namecheap server=dynamicdns.park-your-domain.com use=web, web=https://api.ipify.org login=mikemcfetridge.com password='your_namecheap_ddns_password' @


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- **`server`**: Points directly to Namecheap's dedicated dynamic DNS handling infrastructure.
- **`use=web`**: Tells the client to fetch your external public IP using a web lookup utility (`ipify.org`) rather than checking your local router or network interface directly.
- **`login`**: Your root registered domain name.
- **`password`**: The unique, long alphanumeric DDNS password/token generated inside your Namecheap domain dashboard (this is *not* your Namecheap account password).
- **`@`**: Instructs `ddclient` to update the root domain apex itself. *(If you wanted to update a subdomain like `vpn.mikemcfetridge.com`, you would replace `@` with `vpn`).*

Save the file by pressing `CTRL + O`, then hit `Enter`, and exit the editor by pressing `CTRL + X`.

## 3. Managing the Service

Enable and start the background daemon process so that your system tracks and updates your IP automatically on reboots:

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# Enable the service to start automatically on system boot
sudo systemctl enable ddclient

# Start the service right now
sudo systemctl start ddclient

# Check the running operational status of the service
sudo systemctl status ddclient

## 4. Verification and Debugging

To verify that your configuration is error-free and successfully communicating with Namecheap's servers, run a manual forced update simulation with verbose logging enabled: