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Gear up a Local DNS with Synology DiskStation

February 18th, 2022 - It(ii mins)

The final days I tried to set up a local DNS cache thing on my Synology, only to utilize up the CPU a bit more. Why? Because once the request is in the cache, it'southward much faster :)

Then, hither is a simple tutorial to prepare up the DNS on your Synology box.

Prerequisites

There are, of class some prerequisites to all this:

• A Synology box. I take a DS1515+, but AFAIK any will work
• Your DNS addresses. All ISPs accept their own, but you can become Google'southward too
• An internet connectedness (no proxy preferably)
• Remember your DiskStation'due south IP address
• Optional but recommended: brand your DiskSTation'due south IP address a static one. Your router should be able to practise that.

Once yous have that, yous can log in on the DiskStation console and install the DNS server package.

Once it's installed, brand sure information technology'southward upwards and running.

Configuration

The configuration has two sides:

1. the DNS server
2. your calculator(s)

Sections below illustrate them.

DNS Server

The simplest configuration has only a few steps.

First, create a primary zone:

• Domain type: "Forward Zone"
• Domain proper name: a fabricated up domain name. I picked upwards "home.local" in case I'll add other machines by proper name (e.m. server.home.local, diskstation.dwelling house.local)
• Master DNS Server: your DiskStation's IP address (192.168.0.110 in my case)

Image below illustrates these settings:

At present you take a basic DNS server. Nevertheless, if y'all set up upwards your local machine to point to it and try to notice an external site, it'll fail. Hence…

Second, y'all demand to configure a fallback DNS for looking up unknown names. The resolution tab in the DNS Server configuration has everything:

All you demand to do is enable the resolution services and make full up the fallback DNS servers.

Your Estimator

The idea is to point your auto to the IP address of the DiskStation (to use your freshly configured DNS service) – hence the advice above the IP address should be fixed. Since most if non all Os-es allow multiple DNS servers, you gain the well-nigh by having your DiskStation every bit the starting time entry.

Actual setting up your computer depends on your Bone. Google has a overnice description for all major OS-es, which you can adjust to employ your own (Internet access provider'south) servers.

More options

Yous could add things like contrary zones, static names for local machines… Still, all this falls out of the telescopic of this post.

HTH,

A lilliputian experiment:

Source: https://www.laurivan.com/set-up-a-local-dns-with-synology-diskstation/

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