01. Intro#

When I travel, I have a few technology essentials that I like to bring along to include 1) travel router 2) streaming device 3) laptop. Im more likely to forget my toothbrush than I am these things and theyre going to be the focal point of this post. I like to bring a travel router for a few different reasons. The primary reason is that I dont trust any shared network so I would like to ensure there is some kind of VPN, either back to my house or to a VPN provider of my choosing. Next is that the devices I bring along with me have the travel router login pre-programmed, so once the router is plugged in they’ll auto-connect. Lastly I can continue to use my DNS ad blocking and it just helps me get around any weird network restrictions imposed wherever I am, whether thats having to pay per-device in the captive portal, or blocking websites that I like to go to. I will admit that the way I wanted it set up is very particilar, but for documentation purposed this is what I have going for my situation.

So having keys via LetsEncrypt is pretty cool given the fact that they’re free, but unlike other certs these are only good for about 90 days, and while manually moving keys over a couple times a year is not the most annoying thing in the world, I’m pretty lazy so i like to automate trivial tasks as much as possible. I’m doing this with the assumption that you’ve already set up your certs using the pfSense ACME client so what we’re going to be doing is as simple as using rsync to ensure that these files are always up to date.