How to use a Synology as a DNS Server - 4K TUTORIAL
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- This tutorial goes over how to use your Synology NAS as a DNS server! This allows you to not only speed up your networks internet access by caching DNS requests, but also allows you to use custom domains names rather than IP addresses!
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DUDDDDDE!!!! You're amazing!!! I have been looking at how to change the DNS for months, and everyone was saying control panel, control panel. Four minutes into your video, you solved my problem. I am a small company that works with special needs children, and many of our projects are bootstrapped, AKA figuring it out on our own, because money is tight. I can now externally access my Synology.
THANK YOU! I was able to get my device working as a DNS server in order to have my DDNS address work on my local network. This will help me a lot with setting up and testing my reverse proxy on the NAS and enables me to use the DDNS name when setting up apps on my phone. It's honestly maddening how many posts I saw with this issue where there wasn't enough detail for me to get it working.
Thanks for this. Note that google DNS is 8.8.8.8 (as you state) and 8.8.4.4 (the 4.4.4.4 that you use is not Google, I believe).
I had to scroll way too far down for this comment!
Not sure if it was corrected or not but Google DNS server address are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. Not 4.4.4.4 as stated in the video.
Sill waiting for the Pi-hole video
Hi friends. This is the best installation instruction. I've seen a lot of them!
DNS is domain name service, not dynamic name service.
He probably got confused with DDNS
DNS is Domain Name System, not Domain Name Service.
@@morkraksa8259Yes!
Very high quality stuff
I rarely comment on videos but daym, you taught me everything that I want to know
Hey thanks!
Will you ever make a video for hosting your own domain so the public can access your domain? I have a google one but rather host on my synology.
I beg to differ. DNS does not stand for Dynamic Name Service. It stands for Domain Name Service
Actually its DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM lol neither of you are correct. ;)
Yep, you're right, but I bet you're not a blues guitarist@@StevenRayVaughan
@@OldSeaDoggy nope! But I do play guitar. No one can be as good as he was!
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Excellent DNS tutorial. Thank you very much.
Happy to help!
Super informative - thanks for all your videos SpaceRex. Personally, I am wanting to use my Synology as an Email Server, however, I do not currently have a Domain Name or a Static IP. Synology stated that I get 1 Free Synology Domain, however, I cannot find an article on how to set this up - do you have a tutorial on how to do this? Also, are there any Synology Apps that can be used to handle a Dynamic IP Address scenario for the Email Server purpose? If so, do you have any recommendations or Tutorials in this regard? Thanks so much for your time.
Is there an easy way using Synology DNS server to have a web browsing log of all the devices in my LAN? The log is so much full with tons of secondary queries that is not easy to tell something apart.
where is the link to setup a static ip address on my synology? you didn't provide it in the description. thanks!
Hello, I am new in Synology Nas. I am using a Nighthawk wifi router to my computer and my Synology nas is plugged-in directly to my wifi router. My question is how can I connect my synology nas directly to dns server or use a domain host name to open my synology nas if I`m using a wifi router (not on Ethernet). I hope you get what I mean. Because I don`t want to use always the quickconnect to open my synology nas.
Great video's but quick question Im on a windows 10 machine where would I go to find the DNS tab to enter the ip's
Great tutorial! Question: how to set this up with Xfinity Gateway? They no longer allow changing the DNS on the router. Is there a workaround without losing XFi POD, Home Security and such?
There would not be. You could just own your own domain and use a public DNS
Do you do any videos discussing DNS: Secure Mode. Seems like an encrypted DNS that causes your tutorial to not quite work on a Android mobile.
thanks for the video ... can i use my synology to host dns server to just ssh my local machines on llan with machine name instead of ip address ?
Good tutorial. Good use for my DS918+. How do you verify it's working as intended, caching records, please? In setting I see status 0 for queries and TCP. Thanks.
Easiest thing is a dig command which tells u97 how long it took
So glad you did a video on this! Thank you
Another really useful video! Thank you very much. I was wondering which video is it that I can learn how to set a static ip for my nas. I have a synology router as well.
It's totally correct that it's called DHCP Name Server, because that's what get's delivered to devices via DHCP and has nothing to do with the DNS servers you've set up for your USG/UDM. The only thing they could've done is call it "DHCP DNS"
Yeah, I realize that it is over the DHCP protocol for setting the DNS servers on each connected machine.
I do wish that they would have just called it out as DNS-DHCP
How to setup srv records to have internal domain name for plex , calibre web etc running on different ports ?
Really good video on setting up DNS on Synology NAS. I have set up the DNS for my local private Lan. I now would like to do the same for my IoT Vlan for those devices that have static IPs. How can I set that up using the same Synology NAS DNS?
This is brilliant, thank you so much for the video.
Hi there. do you have knowledge on setting ip camera foscam fI8910W to synology nas server as storage for saving videos? but the camera will be from another country which means will be in different netwok connection. is there a settings that can create a solution?
fantastic video, well explained. Keep them coming
Thank you so much.
Is there any way to add some kind of ad blocking to this DNS?
That would be via a PiHole which is going to be an upcoming video!
@@SpaceRexWill OK cool thnx, Have Pi-Hole installed via Docker. Dont like the idea of running apps onside Docker on a single NAS. It has a tendancy to start slowing down.
I believe there are adblocking DNS servers publically available.
How do I avoid having to copy all my DNS information from my registrar? I have a lot of assets in subdomains, it's going to take awhile. Can I make a failed subdomain resolution forward to another DNS server?
What I would do is just make a local subdomain instead. That way the public stuff goes public and the local stuff stays local
It says a forbiden error:
You don't have permission to access this resource.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
seems like you have had some custom configs to your NAS as best as I could guess
@@SpaceRexWill btw is it a problem if I use my old laptop as synology NAS?
I'm confused. I also have a google domain. I want to use this domain to point to my nas static IP and port number where I am hosting a docker container, holding my personal website. So this would need to work off my LAN and work on the WAN. Where would I find the records I need to be able to do this?
You would want to setup the google domain to point to a .synology.me with a CNAME record. (External DNS)
Then internally setup your DNS server to point to the IP of your local NAS
Brother i want to host my website from my local pc, need some help, should i need to create dns server, for connecting to domain ??? Or not, will you please tell me steps ...of main points.
You would not. Just go ahead and setup a ddns address to your home synology with whoever you have your domain through
Do you need high power NAS to run a DNS, VPN at the same time? I have the Synology 2600 Router and it has the options to run both DNS and VPN would it be better to run them on that? I run the Media server off of my DS720. I also have the DS118 I use it just as a full time back up home/iphone photo video server.
I would run both of them off of the router as it will really just work better. But your DS720 should easily be capable of both depending on how heavily the VPN is used
Thank you so much!
Can I use use it if I only have a DDNS from Synology? I can't access to the web directory of my NAS locally
So this is a local DNS server. You could use this to say that xyz.synology.me resolves to the local IP or your NAS if you do not have NAS look back
can i cache my ext domain name via dns server speeeding it up?
Yes!
I setup the DNS sever and all seems to be running fine, except anything associated with Amazon/Amazon devices. I could put the devices in a separate VLAN, but then I still run into the problem with clients (my wife) not being able to load amazon.com (probably a good thing now that I think about it).
I have forwarding enabled and set to 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 on the server, I also have these and name servers 2 and 3 on my router. When I shut the server off I have no problem, since it is bypassing the local name server for 2 or 3.
I also did a nslookup on amazon.com with the server running and it returns ip addresses.
Thoughts?
Try clearing the DNS cache on your wife's compute
That was my first thought, but didn’t work…
did you go into resolution -> enable forwarders?
Yeah, forwarding is enabled and all other domains work perfectly, it just seems that anything associated with Amazon (devices, apps, or site) is having issues.
I figured it out, I had VPN connection established with another server, forgot it is setup to connect at startup. Once I terminated that connection it works flawlessly. Didn’t even think to start there since it was only Amazon services that had issues.
Domain name system - that’s what DNS means.
Thanks!
Thanks man!
You did not explain reverse DNS
I am using my Synology NAS box for storing the data with mobotix CCTV cameras... Whenever cameras goes offline am not getting any kind of alert . So i requested mobotix team, solution for this issue finally they shared one python script and they asked me to run this file on my NAS which will keep on check your camera ping status if ping get drops yours script will regonize and send the mail alert like that they advised me... Right here any one can help out how to run the python script in my NAS
how comfortable are you with SSH? you would need to SSH in and make a cronjob for it to run every time it starts up. You would also have to setup the email server on Synology.
Will using a vpn secure you against dns poisoning?
Yes, assuming you trust your homes DNS server / ISP. However HTTPS does a better job
My sub domain name keeps going to my dream machine controller home page
I have a video on a reverse proxy. That’s what you want to look up
Screw Google’s, I always use Cloudflare’s (1.1.1.1 / 1.0.0.1).
DNS = Domain Name Service
thanks. but wanted to point out that 4.4.4.4 is not google DNS, should be 8.8.4.4
I really think Ubiquiti products are for amateurs. Their support is primarily via email, the responses are slow, and their engineers don’t know what they’re doing. I would never install a firewall for a client without 24/7 phone support.
Domain Name Service
Sorry, I got wrong channel. Somehow youtube won't refresh Comments even after I load other youtube video
i wish they make it more clear not to open port 53
He did say explicitly not to
Adheral
DNS = Domain Name System. Good video otherwise!
Whoops! got my names flipped!
@@SpaceRexWill no problem, I know you didn’t do it on purpose. Thank you for the video!
Another great video; thank you so much, you are one of the best sources for "how to make the most of your Synology".
One question
At 6mins 22 seconds into your video, th-cam.com/video/knD5TjXGBqA/w-d-xo.html , you speak about "Maxmum cache size" for the DNS. Do you know how many bytes each each look up takes or what is the maximun number of look ups 10MB cache will store?
As I ask this I realise that the answer is "It depends"; "www.bbc.co.uk" would take up less space than "www.A_Really_Really_Really_Really_Long_Name.com".
That is going to be something that you would probably have to look up in a Synology White Paper as it depends even more on how it is stored and indexed. 10MB of just IP addresses and hostnames is going to be millions. But a lot of the data is used for Indexing so that the values can be quickly looked up
TL:DR; no idea
@@SpaceRexWill I do like it when someone how doesn't know states "I don't know"; rather than talk nonsense as many do today.
Cheers.
Dynamic Name Service? Huh? No?
Domain Name Server
Maybe you mean DDNS - Dynamic Domain Name Server
Domain name service...
Exactly!
Lost me at you're on a Mac.