System Engineer focused on Linux infrastructure, network security, and open-source technology. I build systems that are transparent, reproducible, and designed to work without hand-holding.
- Working on DNSGuardian – privacy-first DNS infrastructure with RPZ filtering
- Next up: exploring Matrix as a federated communication layer
- Interested in: DNS · PKI · VPN architecture · digital autonomy · open infrastructure
Networking & Security
DNS (PowerDNS · dnsdist · BIND) · IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack · DDNS · Reverse Proxy · MediaWiki
Resilient, privacy-first DNS infrastructure for multi-site deployments.
Primary and secondary authoritative PowerDNS servers with redundant recursive resolvers and RPZ-based domain filtering (Hagezi blocklists). Full IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack. Users can request domain whitelisting via dnsguardian.ch.
PowerDNS dnsdist Nginx IPv6 DDNS
- Email: rayla@norell.ch
- OpenPGP: keys.openpgp.org
- Languages: DE / EN

