DHCP & DDNS

[nasuser459]

Hi a want ask for implement two features.
The first one is about the DHCP server.
The NAS has a DHCP server, and this is a big thing, but there is no way to manage it.
The feature i want ask for is to add the possibility to assign a static ip to a device using its MAC address. Many routers doesn't have this option and the nas could make up for this lack.

The second one, instead, regards the DDNS.
In the dynamic DNS section we can set only one ddns account, but I have more than one domain that I want pointing to my public address.
Many routers make it possible to set more than one account, but many others no. So if the nas software allowed to set more than one account, may give what the economics router don't give so who has an economic router can get this function by the NAS.

Thanks

[pwilson]

Hi a want ask for implement two features.
The first one is about the DHCP server.
The NAS has a DHCP server, and this is a big thing, but there is no way to manage it.
The feature i want ask for is to add the possibility to assign a static ip to a device using its MAC address. Many routers doesn't have this option and the nas could make up for this lack.

The second one, instead, regards the DDNS.
In the dynamic DNS section we can set only one ddns account, but I have more than one domain that I want pointing to my public address.
Many routers make it possible to set more than one account, but many others no. So if the nas software allowed to set more than one account, may give what the economics router don't give so who has an economic router can get this function by the NAS.

Thanks

If you want to implement a decent DNS/DHCP Server on your NAS, check out Don's message thread: [How-To] A guide to setting up dnsmasq

This can handle everything you want, including the ability to define "static" leases (DHCP Reservations) for your individual devices.

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dhcp-host=50:E5:49:5C:06:BC,pwilsonxp,10.77.13.2,60m
dhcp-host=10:BF:48:EA:34:63,pwilson-nexus,10.77.13.43,60m
dhcp-host=F8:F1:B6:FC:DE:46,pwilson-motox,10.77.13.44,60m
dhcp-host=00:50:F2:EC:B0:39,mattx,10.77.13.21,60m
dhcp-host=00:0D:3A:B4:FA:47,kaelamx,10.77.13.22,60m
dhcp-host=AC:22:0B:66:9D:9A,connie-nexus,10.77.13.30,60m
dhcp-host=00:16:CF:5F:36:19,connie1,10.77.13.31,60m
dhcp-host=00:15:58:C9:3F:9D,pwilsonlt,10.77.13.40,60m
dhcp-host=00:1B:77:95:67:66,pwilsonlt-wl,10.77.13.41,60m
dhcp-host=00:13:02:87:6E:8A,pwilsonlt-vpn,10.77.13.42,60m
dhcp-host=00:50:F2:D0:47:7E,shadowx,10.77.13.50,60m
dhcp-host=00:0D:3A:9C:9F:AE,crystalx,10.77.13.51,60m
dhcp-host=00:50:F2:A9:09:E4,xecuter,10.77.13.52,60m
dhcp-host=00:18:FE:9F:FB:9D,lj2605dn,10.77.13.248,60m
dhcp-host=00:11:95:68:13:F4,laserjet,10.77.13.249,60m
dhcp-host=00:04:00:d2:ab:90,x422,10.77.13.247,60m
dhcp-host=00:08:9B:D6:B5:72,nasty2,10.77.13.145,60m
dhcp-host=00:24:A5:AF:1E:30,buffalo-ap,10.77.13.99,60m
dhcp-host=00:18:E7:C8:51:C0,widownet825-ap,10.77.13.80,60m
dhcp-host=C4:3D:C7:87:63:A3,widownet3700-ap,10.77.13.77,60m
dhcp-host=00:08:9B:CB:11:20,ts419,10.77.13.251,60m
dhcp-host=08:00:27:11:B1:37,pwilsonlt-vmwin7,10.77.13.45,60m
dhcp-host=F8:F1:B6:36:5E:E5,pwilson-motox,10.77.13.46,60m
dhcp-host=30:39:26:BE:0D:1A,connie-droid,10.77.13.35,60m
dhcp-host=70:5A:B6:D5:CB:40,connie-pc,10.77.13.32,60m
dhcp-host=00:0E:08:C1:FD:55,PSTN-1,10.77.13.6,60m
dhcp-host=00:0E:08:C1:FD:6E,PSTN-2,10.77.13.5,60m
dhcp-host=00:15:18:F1:03:2F,PAP2-1,10.77.13.4,60m
dhcp-host=00:00:00:00:00:07,asterisk,10.77.13.7,60m
dhcp-host=00:06:DC:80:BD:93,popcorn,10.77.13.253,60m
dhcp-host=00:10:75:1A:3D:29,dockstar,10.77.13.252,60m
dhcp-host=5C:D9:98:80:E0:B9,boxee,10.77.13.98,60m
dhcp-host=01:34:08:04:74:eb,boxee2,10.77.13.95,60m
dhcp-host=E4:71:85:00:9C:90,almond-ap,10.77.13.79,60m
dhcp-host=5C:D9:98:86:43:47,boxee-wl,10.77.13.97,60m
dhcp-host=78:E4:00:24:C5:7B,connie-pc-wl,10.77.13.33,60m
dhcp-host=00:18:DE:CA:07:46,matt-lt-wl,10.77.13.24,60m
dhcp-host=08:00:27:F7:7D:0F,pxetest,10.77.13.47,60m
dhcp-host=8C:64:22:B9:3C:D1,connie-phone2,10.77.13.71,60m
dhcp-host=E4:71:85:00:9C:91,almond-re,10.77.13.78,60m
dhcp-host=00:22:68:11:c8:36,pwilsont500,10.77.13.49,60m

[solamar]

If you want to implement a decent DNS/DHCP Server on your NAS, check out Don's message thread: [How-To] A guide to setting up dnsmasq

This can handle everything you want, including the ability to define "static" leases (DHCP Reservations) for your individual devices.

Interesting, but for me thats to hack'n slash and not very friendly to a multi-technician environment where several techs around the world might be putting hands on while providing support. I don't need to go threw a training just to show someone how I hacked in a solution. I'm very much with nasuser459. I'm needing a more plug and play solution thats tightly integrated as a package and easily manageable DNS and DHCP within QNAP. I want to be able to just drop it in an go..

We are highly decentralized so ANY advantage we can get for remote maintenance and support angle thats got a low-lerning curve is heavily leveraged. If QNAP wants to break the headwind that Synology and others have on them in Enterprise, they need to think more along the lines of enterprise, centrally managed, QTS OS independent upgradable packages, with HTML5 based easy to use UI. So far they are lagging. One example is I'm not a fan of the central management system QNAP is pushing from a 3rd party. Synology's solution they decided to own it, built it, and it's gotten very good and simply included w/o some fee attached after 5 units.

Another example is one of the things that kills them in my firm is they are mainly Chrome based UI (File Station doesn't work well unless you use Chrome, for example). While nice in consumer land, in Enterprise, Chrome is often shunned because of the data-farming and because Google updates soooo often that things break when they worked only days before. When dealing with 23,000+ users, thats bad, very bad. Thats support center call hell. This is especially true in a company like mine that does a lot of contract enterprise work with various local cities, states and gov't level work. We also like to control updates, so Chrome is actually blocked on most systems.

All that said, QNAP has a better hardware platform. If I could just install Synology DSM OS onto my QNAP hardware I'd be fairly happy.. HAHA! Synology hardware tends to be underpowered for my tastes and I like where QNAP is going with the Virtualization Station... soooooooooo, damned if you do, damned if you dont.. pfff..

Anyway.. off on a tangent.. bad me.. hehe