kmx.io Blog

• • 2026-09-01 09:36:00 Viewed 19 times

    Update on kmx.io DNS servers

  • Holidays are almost over and it's time for a little update on our DNS servers deployment last week as we switched from OVH name servers to our own mix of OpenBSD, unbound, nsd, and the result is two Makefile's that allow for zone creation, ...

• • 2026-08-31 07:46:40 Viewed 18 times

    Building websites for anyone

  • Unlike Meta, we do not build walls.

    There is one paywall but it is 2€/month and that's just covering hosting (bare metal hardware) costs. And that's just if you want to publish your own web pages. Visiting the resulting website is fr...

• • 2026-08-27 09:58:24 Viewed 95 times

    AI is thinking, we're doomed !

  • From a discussion between thodg (the author of this article) and ChatGPT terra high today :

    › now please change the owner of site.kmx.io to thodg
    
    
    • I’ll locate the site.kmx.io site and the thodg user in the facts database...
    

• • 2026-08-20 18:10:24 Viewed 20 times

    Switched kmx.io DNS authoritative servers to our own nsd(8) instances on OpenBSD current

  • Today we switched to our own DNS servers hosted using nsd(8) on OpenBSD current.

    The servers are ns1.kmx.io and ns2.kmx.io and should serve as before with a few minor changes.

    We used to host our DNS zones from OVH and still do for a ...

• • 2026-08-19 16:49:00 Viewed 25 times

    OpenBSD domain name servers

  • I carried for a long time a few misconceptions about OpenBSD's domain name servers.

    OpenBSD name servers come in three flavors :

    1. Local workstation, roaming but validating domain name server → unwind(8) → localhost
    2. Local net...