Tips & tricks

If you have an external DNS entry configured to point to an OVH website, you could get this error : 520 Website not authorized on CDN Simply add your external url to the Multiple Domain option: This actualy tells to apache to bind this url to your website.

If you wish to change the dns nameserver information in ubuntu 12.04, you have to use the file /etc/network/interfaces instead of /etc/resolv.conf . Edit /etc/network/interfaces and append or replace the following line to set your dns server : dns-nameservers 1.2.3.4 5.6.7.8 And optionally this one to specify the domain to be append when you request a non fully qualify name : dns-search foo.org bar.com #1

I had an issue on a RS2211+ joined to a domain : Each time I restarted the Station, the nameserver was reverted to an old value. Changing parameters in the web interface didn't help. So I connected to console via SSH and I changed nameserver ip in those 3 files : /etc/resolv.conf /etc/resolv.conf.sv /etc/synoinfo.conf And the problem seems to be resolved

An openvpn package is now available on Synology Website. After the openvpn package is installed, the configuration file is located here : /usr/syno/etc/synovpn/openvpn/openvpn.conf Add the following line in the configuration file : push "dhcp-option DNS 192.168.1.3" where ip address is your DNS server ip address. Restart the openvpn package.

In order to get working the CNAME directive in dnsmasq config, you need to configure the alias as FQDN cname=myalias.mydomain.tld,dhcp_host #1