Category: tech

Secure and private email

One of my recent search has been around avoiding giving away my data to the big tech guys, and while I’m still far from a good result, I did find an interesting Mail service, based in Switzerland with a great reputation. It is call Protonmail and you can find more info at https://protonmail.com/ Read more...

APN ambassador

I’ve been invited to be an AWS APN Ambassador and I’m very honoured and humbled by it. Read more...

Multiple TXT records on AWS Route53

I am trying Protonmail, a very secure, very privacy focus company. To manage domains other than protonmail.com or pm.com, protonmail requires some changes in DNS, and in particular adding a TXT for domain ownership validation. I did it on Route53, all good. (hurray for the super fast update of AWS). Later for crypto/spam checking needs (you need to stop SPAM right) there is a request to create a second TXT field. Read more...

Some important DNS info

Google DNS servers: 8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4 OpenDNS 208.67.222.222 208.67.220.220 CloudFlare 1.1.1.1 1.0.0.1 Google MX records to receive email on Gmail or G-suite - https://support.google.com/a/answer/174125?hl=en Name/Host/Alias Time to Live (TTL*) Record Type Priority Value/Answer/Destination Blank or @ 3600 MX 1 ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. Blank or @ 3600 MX 5 ALT1.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. Blank or @ 3600 MX 5 ALT2.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. Blank or @ 3600 MX 10 ALT3.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. Blank or @ 3600 MX 10 ALT4.ASPMX.L.GOOGLE.COM. AWS Route 53 NS servers will look like (with different numbers probably) ns-2048. Read more...