Subj : Synology Routers
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Sun Nov 06 2022 08:21:00

I bought a Synology RT2600ac, and I'm liking it. I wanted more granular 
parental controls than I could do with OpenWRT, and I'm pretty happy with 
the controls. The control I was looking for was cumulative time online - I 
want my kids off of the net after dinner, but also want to limit their daily 
time. You can create profiles by MAC address easily.

There's a DNS server app, VPN server that looks pretty nice, and it uses a 
desktop interface similar to DSM, their management environment for NASes.

The only two things missing are a VPN *client* and static host names. I want 
to use a public domain name, and override a few hostnames with a static host 
file. With the Synology DNS server, it assumes it's authoritative for the 
zone and won't pass along requests it doesn't know about. I suppose I could 
set up the whole external zone internally, but I don't like leaking private 
IP information outside.


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