Some lower-level services and utilities that could run on rooter. See also [applications](). Unless noted otherwise, these would all be optional and not run by default. ## DNS A local, caching dnsmasq should be run and advertised on LAN interfaces by default, with easy user selection of alternative upstream servers. Is it possible to have an intermediate DNS server check DNSSEC even if the end clients don't? ## VPN OpenVPN, IPSec ## System Logging and Monitoring [Amon](http://amon.cx/): monitoring and error tracking ### Local internet graph/map explorer Explore a graph of router hops outwards. Latency as color? Named by network? Width by traffic? Show international fiber links? ### Statistical Traffic Analysis data/time spent by: protocol: UDP/TCP protocol: torrent, HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, SSH, etc device type website host (from whitelist?) MIME type (json?) region compressed/uncompressed ## File System and Storage Tahoe-LAFS ([tutorial](https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/546799:weekend-project-get-started-with-tahoe-lafs-storage-grids)) # References * [Linode Library](http://library.linode.com/) for installation guides